I'm not going to repost your whole dmesg but I'll give you some comments
on the "interesting" parts.
Jerry W. Whitmire wrote:
bcm43xx driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
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
I get the identical output on my HP laptop right down to the repeated
"bcm43xx: Radio turned off". The next lines from bcm43xx are where
things diverge:
Jerry W. Whitmire wrote:
eth0: link down
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
bcm43xx: set security called
bcm43xx: .level = 0
bcm43xx: .enabled = 0
bcm43xx: .encrypt = 0
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up?
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
I'm having trouble with WEP authentication (still) but the corresponding
dmesg section for me is:
bcm43xx: set security called
bcm43xx: .active_key = 0
bcm43xx: .level = 1
bcm43xx: .enabled = 1
bcm43xx: .encrypt = 1
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up?
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Radio turned on
bcm43xx: Chip initialized
bcm43xx: DMA initialized
bcm43xx: 80211 cores initialized
bcm43xx: Keys cleared
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to 00:12:17:7a:b6:f6
SoftMAC: cannot associate without being authenticated, requested
authentication
SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to 00:12:17:7a:b6:f6
SoftMAC: cannot associate without being authenticated, requested
authentication
SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:12:17:7a:b6:f6.
SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:12:17:7a:b6:f6.
SoftMAC: Open Authentication with 00:12:17:7a:b6:f6 failed, error code: 13
SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:12:17:7a:b6:f6 but did
not request authentication.
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 1/64
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0260 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0220 (TX) max used slots: 2/512
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
On your box I'm guessing that the driver isn't finding the firmware or
there is some problem with the firmware based on the:
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
message. Check the documentation that came with the fwcutter utility
and see if you have the firmware in the correct directory, right
permissions, etc.
Cheers,
Dave
P.S. BTW, the odd salutation ("Did you ever get an answer on this?") was
due to me running across your posting on http://fcp.homelinux.org/ and
me miss-reading the date. I get digests and I thought I'd missed your
post. Had a good laugh when I saw my response and your original in the
same digest batch.
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