Whenst last we left our hero, I had let yum upgrade my kernel on FC6 to
2.6.22.1-32.fc6, which required bcm43xx drivers version 4. However,
bcm43xx-fwcutter had not been upgraded and would not handle the new
drives. Moving forward, last night I updated to the latest
bcm43xx-fwcutter and extracted the version 4 drivers. My laptop's
wireless now works but not at boot time. I have to run 'modprobe
bcm43xx-mac80211' and 'ifup eth1' to get an actual network connection. I
tried to illustrate the situation with the output below. It seems like
there is a timing or order issue.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong or need to do differently to get the
new version of bcm43xx working on my laptop?
Thanks!
Andrew Robinson
[root@proteus ~]# lsmod | grep bcm43xx
bcm43xx_mac80211 397601 0
ssb 35141 1 bcm43xx_mac80211
mac80211 145865 2 rc80211_simple,bcm43xx_mac80211
[root@proteus ~]# iwlist eth1 scan
Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
Some things may be broken...
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:18:39:7A:B4:C0
ESSID:"robinson"
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz
Quality=47/100 Signal level=-50 dBm Noise
level=-68 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=0000059292340402
Cell 02 - Address: 00:16:B6:DB:0B:8C
ESSID:"robinson"
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz
Quality=41/100 Signal level=-60 dBm Noise
level=-68 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=000005929477611c
[root@proteus ~]# ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:96:79:86:70
inet addr:192.168.1.25 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::290:96ff:fe79:8670/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:71 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:89 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4118 (4.0 KiB) TX bytes:9175 (8.9 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:3837 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3837 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4849964 (4.6 MiB) TX bytes:4849964 (4.6 MiB)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-90-96-79-86-70-28-49-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
[root@proteus ~]# ping -c 3 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.25 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.25 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +2 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2008ms
, pipe 2
[root@proteus ~]# modprobe bcm43xx-mac80211
[root@proteus ~]# ifup eth1
[root@proteus ~]# ping -c 3 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.87 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=3.31 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=2.95 ms
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.876/2.714/3.310/0.609 ms
