Hi,
I'm trying to make the bcm43xx driver out of the 2.6.20-rc1-mm1 kernel work on
an HPC nx6325, with no luck, so far, although I'm using a firmware that has
been reported to work with these boxes
(http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Gentoo_on_HP_Compaq_nx6325#Onboard_Wireless_.28802.11.29).
The driver loads and seems to operate the hardware to some extent, but there
seems to be a problem with interrupts. Namely, the chip doesn't seem to
generate any.
Right after a fresh 'modprobe bcm43xx' I get the following messages in dmesg:
bcm43xx driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:30:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:30:00.0 to 64
bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4311, rev 0x1
bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x11, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0xa, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x817, rev 0x3, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x820, rev 0x1, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 4, Type 2, Revision 8
bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2)
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
PM: Adding info for No Bus:eth1
printk: 3 messages suppressed.
SoftMAC: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at: net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:306:ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate()
but, strangely enough, eth1 does not appear, but eth2 appears instead:
# ifconfig eth1 up
eth1: unknown interface: No such device
# ifconfig eth2 up
#
Now there are lots of
SoftMAC: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at: net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:306:ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate()
messages in dmesg followed by
bcm43xx: PHY connected
PM: Adding info for No Bus:0000:30:00.0
PM: Removing info for No Bus:0000:30:00.0
PM: Adding info for No Bus:0000:30:00.0
PM: Removing info for No Bus:0000:30:00.0
PM: Adding info for No Bus:0000:30:00.0
PM: Removing info for No Bus:0000:30:00.0
PM: Adding info for No Bus:0000:30:00.0
PM: Removing info for No Bus:0000:30:00.0
bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x122, pl 0x98 (2004-11-16 07:21:20)
bcm43xx: Radio turned on
bcm43xx: Chip initialized
bcm43xx: 32-bit DMA initialized
bcm43xx: Keys cleared
bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
PM: Adding info for No Bus:hw_random
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready
Now, if I run iwconfig on it, I get
eth2 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4311"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: Invalid
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-256 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
and 'iwlist eth2 scan' says 'eth2 No scan results', although a working
access point is standing next to the box and the following line appears in
dmesg:
SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 14 channels starting with channel 1
_But_ if I do 'cat /proc/interrupts' now, I get:
CPU0 CPU1
0: 1247596 0 <NULL>-edge timer
1: 3939 1170 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
12: 150 170 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 38129 6047 IO-APIC-edge ide0
16: 99585 18389 IO-APIC-fasteoi libata, HDA Intel
18: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi bcm43xx
19: 48003 9582 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb2, ehci_hcd:usb3
20: 0 3 IO-APIC-fasteoi yenta, tifm_7xx1, ohci1394, sdhci:slot0
21: 11522 2467 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
23: 68971 11663 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 1247662 1247039
ERR: 10
so apparently there's something wrong.
Greetings,
Rafael
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