Broadcom Corp. BCM4313 Wirelss not detected in Ubuntu 12.10 [duplicate]

Question

I update my Toshiba PORTÉGÉ from Precise(12.04) to Quantal (12.10). After update to Precise wireless device works fine. But after update wireless device is not detect on network manager.

The lspci command says:

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN 
    Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
            Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device [144f:7175]
            Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
            Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
            Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
            Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 3
            Region 0: Memory at d4500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
            Capabilities: <access denied>
            Kernel modules: bcma

The ethernet connection works fine. I try to install firmware-b43-installer but it says:

$ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
...
Unsuported device(s) found: PCI id 14e4:4727
Aborting

More info related gived by lshw:

    root@caprica:~# sudo lshw -class network
  *-network               
       descripción: Ethernet interface
       producto: 82577LC Gigabit Network Connection
       fabricante: Intel Corporation
       id físico: 19
       información del bus: pci@0000:00:19.0
       nombre lógico: eth0
       versión: 06
       serie: e8:9d:87:ed:f4:2a
       tamaño: 1Gbit/s
       capacidad: 1Gbit/s
       anchura: 32 bits
       reloj: 33MHz
       capacidades: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuración: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=2.0.0-k duplex=full firmware=0.12-6 ip=192.168.1.5 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
       recursos: irq:41 memoria:d4700000-d471ffff memoria:d472a000-d472afff ioport:3020(size=32)
  *-network NO RECLAMADO
       descripción: Network controller
       producto: BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
       fabricante: Broadcom Corporation
       id físico: 0
       información del bus: pci@0000:02:00.0
       versión: 01
       anchura: 64 bits
       reloj: 33MHz
       capacidades: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuración: latency=0
       recursos: memoria:d4500000-d4503fff

I execute this too and this is the output:

root@caprica:~# rfkill list all
0: Toshiba Bluetooth: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

I have checking the model in http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43:

BCM4313 - chipset uses unsupported LCN PHY, we work on it

I had configured privated drivers in the visual enviroment, Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver source from bcmwl-kernel-source but don't work either.

Answer 1

I believe bcmwl-kernel-source is correct for your device. Let's try again:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo modprobe wl

You should be all set.

Answer 2

On the upgrade from 12.x to 13.04, the old bcm43 module got blacklisted, however on my mac-mini, the b43 (free driver) was already blacklisted.

Especially for people having used the non free driver in 12.x, this becomes a problem, as the b43 is also blacklisted under 12.x there. So - we have 2 bcm43 and b43 both blacklisted, and none will work. So - check the /etc/modprobe.d directory for any b43 and bcm43 entries, and make sure only one gets blacklists.

YYMV - but I found the bcm43 non free to provide better performance