Hello, I have just installed Fedora 7 on an HP Pavillion DV9208NR
laptop. I have gotten the bcm43xx_mac80211 driver to load the
firmware. It turns the radio on and if I run the command iwlist
scanning I see the cells around my neighborhood, including my own.
This is the dmesg just after ifup wlan0.
bcm43xx_mac80211: Adding Interface type 2
bcm43xx_mac80211: Loading firmware version 351.126 (2006-07-29 05:54:02)
ssb: Switching to ChipCommon core, index 0
ssb: Switching to IEEE 802.11 core, index 1
bcm43xx_mac80211: Radio turned on
bcm43xx_mac80211: Radio enabled by hardware
bcm43xx_mac80211: !WARNING! Idle-TSSI phy->cur_idle_tssi measuring
failed. (cur=27, tgt=62). Disabling TX power adjustment.
bcm43xx_mac80211: Chip initialized
bcm43xx_mac80211: 32-bit DMA initialized
bcm43xx_mac80211: Wireless interface started
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
bcm43xx_mac80211: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 0, mac:
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02
wlan0: RX authentication from 00:11:95:2c:26:02 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02
wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:11:95:2c:26:02 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
wlan0: associated
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02 - assume out of range
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
wlan0: No STA entry for own AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02
This is what I see from
iwlist scanning
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
virbr0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:95:2C:26:02
ESSID:"thedungeon"
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz
Quality=209/146 Signal level=-204 dBm Noise level=-70 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=0000000e34b4af29
Cell 02 - Address: 00:0C:E5:50:4E:B6
ESSID:"Fulp"
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz
Quality=175/146 Signal level=-225 dBm Noise level=-70 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=0000025cf7e96189
Cell 03 - Address: 00:16:B6:E2:3E:D2
ESSID:"linksys_SES_52244"
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz
Quality=175/146 Signal level=-225 dBm Noise level=-70 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=0000025cf84bd184
Cell 01 is my router.
This is the closest I have ever gotten with the bcm43xx driver on this
laptop. OpenSuSE 10.2 will not even see the hardware.
I am using the latest firmware which I extracted with bcm43xx-fwcutter
and have it placed in /lib/firmware.
If anyone has any ideas, thoughts, suggestions I would appreciate them.
--
John
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