On Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:21, Miles Lane wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The last three MM kernels have fail to give me a working bcm43xx driver.
> The odd thing is that dmesg output seems to indicate that the driver
> is working okay. NetworkManager doesn't see the driver, though.
> "iwlist scan" fails to find any access points, too. iwconfig shows
> "Access Point: invalid".
I can confirm the symptoms, I see them too on my test boxes.
> I tried backing out the following patches, and it fixes the problem:
>
> drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx.h
> drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
> drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_power.c
> drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_wx.c
> > drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_xmit.c
You list the files in which there are offending changes. Could you please
list the patches you have reverted?
> After backing out the patches, dmesg shows:
>
> bcm43xx driver
> bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3
> bcm43xx: Number of cores: 5
> bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243, enabled
> bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5, vendor 0x4243, disabled
> bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, enabled
> bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, disabled
> bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, enabled
> bcm43xx: PHY connected
> bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 2, Type 2, Revision 2
> bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2)
> bcm43xx: Radio turned off
> bcm43xx: Radio turned off
> bcm43xx: PHY connected
> bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x127, pl 0xe (2005-04-18 02:36:27)
> bcm43xx: Radio turned on
> bcm43xx: Chip initialized
> bcm43xx: 30-bit DMA initialized
> bcm43xx: Keys cleared
> bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
>
> Also, iwconfig shows:
> eth2 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"loftywifi" Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
> Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:54:A2:0C
> Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=19 dBm
> RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:23F8-49CF-201A-4334-1210-7C3E-0A Security mode:open
> Link Quality=76/100 Signal level=-53 dBm Noise level=-72 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> Thanks,
> Miles
Greetings,
Rafael
--
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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