b43 module loaded, but no interface showed up

Posted by Eduardo Bezerra on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Eduardo Bezerra
Published on 2012-12-12T10:29:57Z Indexed on 2012/12/12 11:08 UTC
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I'm using CentOS 6.3 x86_64 on a hardware with a BCM43224 chip for wi-fi. I installed the b43-fwcutter module and then run modprobe b43, with no error messages. However, no new network interface showed up, and the return of iwconfig is:

lo        no wireless extensions.
eth0      no wireless extensions.

lspci -nn | grep 43224 returns:

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4353] (rev 01)

and uname -a:

Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 6 23:43:09 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Any ideas of how to make the wireless device work?

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