can't get wicd to work

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Subject: can't get wicd to work
From: tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 19:24:48 -0700
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I poked around a bit more at the Debian wiki and some other places and
found out about Broadcom wireless devices and that they have problems.

Here is what I did about it and the results. I'm using all caps for my
remarks to keep them apart from the rest of the text. (My card works.
I checked it with my Windows partition.)


MY CARD:

#discover|grep Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN



DMESG SHOWED THAT I DIDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT DRIVERS INSTALLED, SO I DID
THIS FROM  https://wiki.debian.org/wl#Debian_7_.22Wheezy.22:

Add a "non-free" component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:
# Debian 7 "Wheezy"
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
Update the list of available packages. Install the relevant
linux-headers and broadcom-sta-dkms packages:
# apt-get update
# apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,')
broadcom-sta-dkms
This will also install the recommended wireless-tools package. DKMS
will build the wl module for your system.
Unload conflicting modules:
# modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcmsmac
Load the wl module:
# modprobe wl
Configure your wireless interface as appropriate. See also known issues.



I REBOOTED AND DID THE LAST TWO COMMANDS.
I FIRED UP WICD AND GOT THE USUAL "No wireless networks found."



THEN I CHECKED TO SEE THE STATUS OF THE DEVICE. VOILA! IT'S NOT THERE, AS IN:

Root@debian:/home/tom# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1c:23:2f:f3:8f
inet addr:192.168.0.14  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21c:23ff:fe2f:f38f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:11712 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12194 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6002427 (5.7 MiB)  TX bytes:3623290 (3.4 MiB)
Interrupt:17

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
RX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1743 (1.7 KiB)  TX bytes:1743 (1.7 KiB)

AND:

root@debian:/home/tom# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.


HERE IS THE CURRENT DMESG OUTPUT WHICH SEEMS TO BE RELEVANT:

[    8.833067] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad as
/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input13
[    8.929734] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[    8.929740] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[    8.941586] wl 0000:0c:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    8.944209] wlan%d: 5.100.82.112 driver failed with code 21
[    8.944230] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    8.944284] kernel BUG at
/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-4-common/include/net/cfg80211.h:2209!
[    8.944340] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[    8.944478] CPU 1
[    8.944524] Modules linked in: wl(P+) drm_kms_helper drm
yenta_socket pcmcia_rsrc iTCO_wdt snd_hda_codec_idt i2c_algo_bit
dell_laptop dell_wmi pcmcia_core iTCO_vendor_support coretemp
snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_page_alloc psmouse
acpi_cpufreq i2c_i801 serio_raw lib80211 ac i2c_core evdev
sparse_keymap pcspkr dcdbas mperf cfg80211 snd_seq snd_seq_device
snd_timer rfkill snd battery wmi soundcore power_supply video
processor button ext4 crc16 jbd2 mbcache sg sr_mod cdrom sd_mod
crc_t10dif thermal usbhid hid thermal_sys ata_generic firewire_ohci
ata_piix firewire_core crc_itu_t uhci_hcd ehci_hcd libata tg3 libphy
scsi_mod usbcore usb_common [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[    8.947779]
[    8.947827] Pid: 514, comm: modprobe Tainted: P           O
3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 Debian 3.2.57-3 Dell Inc. Latitude D630
    /0KU184
[    8.948007] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0418a9d>]  [<ffffffffa0418a9d>]
wdev_priv+0x5/0xf [wl]
[    8.948007] RSP: 0018:ffff880037133c00  EFLAGS: 00010246
[    8.948007] RAX: ffff88007b254800 RBX: ffff88007b254f40 RCX: 0000000000000990
[    8.948007] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88007b254f40 RDI: 0000000000000000
[    8.948007] RBP: ffff880036c4d400 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 00000000fffffffe
[    8.948007] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff8800370b6000 R12: ffff88007b254800
[    8.948007] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88007b613ac0 R15: 0000000000000011
[    8.948007] FS:  00007f48bc96d700(0000) GS:ffff88007f500000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[    8.948007] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[    8.948007] CR2: 00007f48bc1c8000 CR3: 000000003716a000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[    8.948007] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[    8.948007] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[    8.948007] Process modprobe (pid: 514, threadinfo
ffff880037132000, task ffff880036dc5100)
[    8.948007] Stack:
[    8.948007]  ffffffffa041cc8b ffff88007b254800 ffff88007b254f40
ffff880036c4d400
[    8.948007]  ffffffffa041694b ffff88007b254800 ffff880036c4d400
ffff88007c14e000
[    8.948007]  ffffffffa0417189 ffff880037133ce8 0000000022b0b063
ffffc90000340000
[    8.948007] Call Trace:
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffffa041cc8b>] ? wl_cfg80211_detach+0xf/0xb6 [wl]
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffffa041694b>] ? wl_free_if+0x27/0x7e [wl]
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffffa0417189>] ? wl_free+0x51/0x201 [wl]
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffff81349231>] ? printk+0x43/0x48
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffffa041d669>] ? wl_pci_probe+0x485/0x4b0 [wl]
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffff8134fa6f>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xe/0xf
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffff81259e12>] ? __pm_runtime_set_status+0x118/0x13c
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffff811c700f>] ? local_pci_probe+0x39/0x68
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffff811c7ab8>] ? pci_device_probe+0xcd/0xfa
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffff812524ad>] ? driver_probe_device+0xa8/0x138
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffff8125258c>] ? __driver_attach+0x4f/0x6f
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffff8125253d>] ? driver_probe_device+0x138/0x138
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffff812510dc>] ? bus_for_each_dev+0x4f/0x7a
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffff81251e46>] ? bus_add_driver+0xa5/0x1f5
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffffa05bb000>] ? 0xffffffffa05bafff
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffff812529b4>] ? driver_register+0x8d/0xf5
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffffa05bb000>] ? 0xffffffffa05bafff
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffff811c82d3>] ? __pci_register_driver+0x4d/0xb6
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffffa05bb000>] ? 0xffffffffa05bafff
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffff81002085>] ? do_one_initcall+0x75/0x12c
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffffa05bb000>] ? 0xffffffffa05bafff
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffff81075981>] ? sys_init_module+0x10c/0x25b
[    8.948007]  [<ffffffff81354a12>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[    8.948007] Code: b5 08 07 00 00 48 c7 c7 ad c4 56 a0 31 c0 e8 69
07 f3 e0 eb 0a 4c 89 e7 31 db e8 ec f7 ff ff 89 d8 5b 5d 41 5c c3 48
85 ff 75 02 <0f> 0b 48 8b 3f e9 9e fe ff ff 41 54 41 89 c8 55 53 48 89
fb 48
[    8.948007] RIP  [<ffffffffa0418a9d>] wdev_priv+0x5/0xf [wl]
[    8.948007]  RSP <ffff880037133c00>
[    8.954564] ---[ end trace 1fb03c896022003d ]---




I AM NOW STUMPED ;o(

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