Broadcom 4312 [14e4:4315] [rev1]

[Emiree]

Okay, I would like to point out that I am fairly new to all of this, yet before posting this I've spent several hours researching and have gotten no where.
Firstly I'd like to say thanks for a few things like getting my Ethernet working I followed a few simple steps and managed to get that out of the way. Now the real concern is the wireless.

I've found the commands which detail my card so just for everyones information it's:

Broadcom 4312 [14e4:4315] [rev1]

So far I've followed about 3 different guides, I gathered that in order to get this card to work I would need to use something called a compat-wireless-2.6, since the current kernel on BackTrack4 is less than the supported value of 2.6.32, so I'd need to upgrade my kernel. So I tried doing this using these commands.

1$ wget http://wireless.kernel.org/download/...ss-2.6.tar.bz2
2 $ tar -jxf compat-wireless-$(date -I).tar.bz2
3 $ cd compat-wireless-$(date -I)
4 $ wget http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/mac80...g+ack_v1.patch
5$ patch -p1 < mac80211.compat08082009.wl_frag+ack_v1.patch
6$ make
7# make install

I try these commands, the first step downloads a documentation and within that I download the compat-wireless, then I extract it etc. Now once I'm im on step 4 I'm fine with downloading it, however step 5 doesn't work as it says: **** strip count l is not a number. So I skipped that step and did the following two steps, all fine, with certain errors but I assumed they would be normal?

Once I did that I followed the guide here: b43 - Linux Wireless, in particular the 'You are using the b43 driver from linux-2.6.25 or newer' section:

wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-012.tar.bz2
tar xjf b43-fwcutter-012.tar.bz2
cd b43-fwcutter-012
make
cd ..

then

export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/b...0.10.5.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver
sudo ../../b43-fwcutter-012/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta_mimo.o

I did exactly as shown above. Everything seemed to be fine.

Now when I try ifconfig lo (lo = my wireless) I get nothing.

Am I missing something, have I done something wrong? or is my chipset really not compatible? If so can someone suggest USB dongles that work out the box from a UK website.

Thanks in advance sorry for the long read.

Anyone? Any help will be appreciated :x

[Encrypted_Soldier]

Yea broadcom blows with backtrack support and injection does not work. So I would get a usb dongle like you said, I currently have the alfa AWUS036H b/g 1000mW which I picked up from amazon for $40. Here it is on Amazon UK: 1000mW 1W 802.11b/g USB Wireless WiFi Adapter With: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

[Snayler]

Am I missing something, have I done something wrong? or is my chipset really not compatible? If so can someone suggest USB dongles that work out the box from a UK website.

I just red the title and this last part I quoted. Broadcom is commonly called "broadcrap" for a reason. Support for Broadcom is really poor under linux. Some have reported some Broadcom chipsets as working, but I don't think it's worth the hassle of trying to make them to work.
So, regarding your last question, I would advise you to buy an Alfa AWUS036H. I bought mine from Germany trough eBay, but I found many from UK. You should take a look at that (just enter ebay.co.uk). You may take a look at other cards, the final decision is yours and all will depend on your preferences. Just be sure to check if it is injection capable.

[mrshrek]

i tried the patch which was on the ubuntu forums for 2.6.33 but the scripts were broken and the patch caused a kernel panick. i've found the default kernel works pretty well with the 14E4:4315 card.

Small tutorial i wrote to get a BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01 - 14E4:4315) working properly ( injection and monitor )

***WARNING***
if you do patch your kernel you will get no support on the backtrack forums and after a conversation with puteh@te it looks like there is a number of tools in BT4 that will require you to recompile there kernel modules to work with the 2.6.32 kernel
***WARNING***

i'm assuming your all logged in as root, if not su root or sudo.


if you have 2 kernels installed the boot partition usually isnt big enough for 3 so you need to cd /boot and the oldest one, but make SURE the one you leave boots properly so if there is any problems you can go back and fix it so lets say 2.6.29 is my oldest kernel and 2.6.30 is my newest.

cd /boot
rm -rf *2.6.29*

if you dont have 2 kernels start here:

cd /usr/src
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.32.4.tar.bz2
tar xjvf linux-2.6.32.4.tar.bz2
rm linux
ln -s linux-2.6.32.4 linux
chown -R root:root linux
cd linux
make oldconfig

if you want to make some changes to the kernel

make menuconfig

after you have made your changes or if you dont want to make any changes start building the kernel

make
make install
make modules_install
apt-get install initramfs-tools
mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32.4 2.6.32.4
update-grub
reboot

ok now you should be booting the 2.6.32.4 kernel, login as root again. im assuming you have a wired connection and know how to set it up. im working off memory but im pretty sure you only need git and git-core packages but if you need anything else bt4 will tell you about it thats how i found all the packages i needed for git.

cd /root
apt-get install git
apt-get install git-core
rmmod b43
rmmod wl
echo "blacklist wl" | tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

ok the next part is taken directly from wireless.kernel.org

git clone http://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git
cd b43-tools/fwcutter
make
cd ..

export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux
.. / .. /fwcutter/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o

^^ remove the spaces between the .. / .. /
had to add them because the forum doesn't like directory traversal in its code boxes. it was posting:
cd broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o

ok now you should have 2.6.32.4 and the new broadcom firmware installed

modprobe b43

and that should do it, but lets check that putting the card into monitor mode works properly

look to see what your interface name is, mines wlan0

iwconfig
airmon-ng start wlan0
airodump-ng mon0

if all that works, lets test injection

taken directly from air-crack's site:

aireplay-ng -9 -e teddy -a 00:14:6C:7E:40:80 mon0

-9 injection test
-e teddy wireless network name
-a 00:14:6c:7e:40:80 is the access point mac
mon0 your wireless interface in monitor mode

The system should respond with:

09:23:35 Waiting for beacon frame (BSSID: 00:14:6C:7E:40:80) on channel 9
09:23:35 Trying broadcast probe requests...
09:23:35 Injection is working!
09:23:37 Found 1 AP

09:23:37 Trying directed probe requests...
09:23:37 00:14:6C:7E:40:80 - channel: 9 - 'teddy'
09:23:39 Ping (min/avg/max): 1.827ms/68.145ms/111.610ms Power: 33.73
09:23:39 30/30: 100%

The last line is important. Ideally it should say 100% or a very high percentage.
If it is low then you are too far away from the AP or too close. If it is zero then injection
is not working and you need to patch your drivers or use different drivers.

if there are no problems then your done and its time to do the happy dance.


edit:
if you are having trouble with apt-get after updating and it says something like:

Setting up recode (3.6-15) ...
install-info: unrecognized option '--description=Character set conversion utility.'
Try `install-info --help' for a complete list of options.

this is a fairly well documented problem that is produced by having the GNU install-info in your path before the debian install-info and is easily fixed by the following:

export PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH
apt-get -f install <package>

[Emiree]

MRSHREK! YOU ARE AWESOME! Finally my broadcom works. Thanks a bunch (although I still ended up buying a wl-167g, haha. but who cares now!

Anyway, Thanks!!

[jnt13]

Small tutorial i wrote to get a BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01 - 14E4:4315) working properly ( injection and monitor )

From what Ive seen posted in the past, a kernel upgrade in BT has always been discouraged as it breaks some things. Have you experienced any program issues/glitches. If it works without any hitches to the normal operation of BT4's other utilities then this should be thrown into the "How to's" or "FAQ" as this is a commonly asked question.

[mbudden]

i tried the patch which was on the ubuntu forums for 2.6.33 but the scripts were broken and the patch caused a kernel panick. i've found the default kernel works pretty well with the 14E4:4315 card.

Small tutorial i wrote to get a BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01 - 14E4:4315) working properly ( injection and monitor )

i'm assuming your all logged in as root, if not su root or sudo.


if you have 2 kernels installed the boot partition usually isnt big enough for 3 so you need to cd /boot and the oldest one, but make SURE the one you leave boots properly so if there is any problems you can go back and fix it so lets say 2.6.29 is my oldest kernel and 2.6.30 is my newest.

cd /boot
rm -rf *2.6.29*

if you dont have 2 kernels start here:

cd /usr/src
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.32.4.tar.bz2
tar xjvf linux-2.6.32.4.tar.bz2
rm linux
ln -s linux-2.6.32.4.tar.bz2 linux
chown -R root:root linux
cd linux
make oldconfig

if you want to make some changes to the kernel

make menuconfig

after you have made your changes or if you dont want to make any changes start building the kernel

make
make install
make modules_install
apt-get install initramfs-tools
mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32.4 2.6.32.4
update-grub
reboot

ok now you should be booting the 2.6.32.4 kernel, login as root again. im assuming you have a wired connection and know how to set it up. im working off memory but im pretty sure you only need git and git-core packages but if you need anything else bt4 will tell you about it thats how i found all the packages i needed for git.

cd /root
apt-get install git
apt-get install git-core
rmmod b43
rmmod wl
echo "blacklist wl" | tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

ok the next part is taken directly from wireless.kernel.org

git clone http://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git
cd b43-tools/fwcutter
make
cd ..

export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux
../../fwcutter/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o

ok now you should have 2.6.32.4 and the new broadcom firmware installed

modprobe b43

and that should do it, but lets check that putting the card into monitor mode works properly

look to see what your interface name is, mines wlan0

iwconfig
airmon-ng start wlan0
airodump-ng mon0

if all that works, lets test injection

taken directly from air-crack's site:

aireplay-ng -9 -e teddy -a 00:14:6C:7E:40:80 mon0

-9 injection test
-e teddy wireless network name
-a 00:14:6c:7e:40:80 is the access point mac
mon0 your wireless interface in monitor mode

The system should respond with:

09:23:35 Waiting for beacon frame (BSSID: 00:14:6C:7E:40:80) on channel 9
09:23:35 Trying broadcast probe requests...
09:23:35 Injection is working!
09:23:37 Found 1 AP

09:23:37 Trying directed probe requests...
09:23:37 00:14:6C:7E:40:80 - channel: 9 - 'teddy'
09:23:39 Ping (min/avg/max): 1.827ms/68.145ms/111.610ms Power: 33.73
09:23:39 30/30: 100%

The last line is important. Ideally it should say 100% or a very high percentage.
If it is low then you are too far away from the AP or too close. If it is zero then injection
is not working and you need to patch your drivers or use different drivers.

if there are no problems then your done and its time to do the happy dance.

Sorry for quoting the whole thing.

But when I get to the step bolded above, when I try to "cd linux" there is no such thing. That's where I'm stuck. Could you help?

[micole]

i tried the patch which was on the ubuntu forums for 2.6.33 but the scripts were broken and the patch caused a kernel panick. i've found the default kernel works pretty well with the 14E4:4315 card.

You know... Now that you said that if any of your programs stop working and you ask for more help the people wont feel obligated to help right? I'm glad you got the broadcom to work and everything (really, I have broadcom's on my computers. But I got an external WiFi for BT) and obviously you are good with Linux (Or know how to use Google really well) enough to patch a kernel.

Again, I'm really happy you were able to get it working, but don't be surprised if someone comes in here and asks for help because something doesn't work anymore, and no one wants to help them because they patched their kernel. (Example mbudden, who most likely didn't "cd Linux" with a capital L)

[xX_Spiidey_Xx]

But when I get to the step bolded above, when I try to "cd linux" there is no such thing. That's where I'm stuck. Could you help?

upgrade to bt4 final, and the linux "directory" will be there.

[mbudden]

Again, I'm really happy you were able to get it working, but don't be surprised if someone comes in here and asks for help because something doesn't work anymore, and no one wants to help them because they patched their kernel. (Example mbudden, who most likely didn't "cd Linux" with a capital L)

Ah. I realized it after I made this comment. But me, I'm not really trying to use this for all the programs. It's more of an experiment for me.

upgrade to bt4 final, and the linux "directory" will be there.

Thanks. I have BT4 Final. What "micole" said above worked. I realized my mistake lol