Has anyone managed to get a BCM4306 wifi card working with rawhide? I've been trying for quite a while, and with just about every firmware version I can locate but still not had any luck.
With the latest kernel (2.6.17-1.2617.2.1.fc6), I don't even seem to get a list of AP's that are around. From a quick google, it looks as though the bcm43xx driver might be a fair bit out of the actual bcm43xx development - as there seems to be a patch back in July that *may* fix this IRQ issue.
dmesg shows the following:
bcm43xx driver PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:03.0 (0100 -> 0102) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7 bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x2 bcm43xx: Number of cores: 6 bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, enabled bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243, enabled bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x1, vendor 0x4243, enabled bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x1, vendor 0x4243, disabled bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x7, vendor 0x4243, enabled bcm43xx: Core 5: ID 0x812, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243, disabled bcm43xx: PHY connected bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 1, Type 2, Revision 1 bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2) bcm43xx: Radio turned off bcm43xx: Radio turned off bcm43xx: PHY disconnected bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 1, Type 0, Revision 2 bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 1206017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2060 Rev: 1) bcm43xx: Radio turned off bcm43xx: Radio turned off bcm43xx: PHY connected bcm43xx: PHY disconnected bcm43xx: PHY connected bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up. bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up. SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first. SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up? bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 SoftMAC: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at: net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:306:ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate() bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up. bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up. bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up. SoftMAC: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at: net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:306:ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate() SoftMAC: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at: net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:306:ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate() bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up. SoftMAC: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at: net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:306:ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate() bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up. bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up. bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up. bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up. bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up. bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up.
Is anyone successfully using this card? Mine is in a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop.
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 01:01 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
Has anyone managed to get a BCM4306 wifi card working with rawhide? I've been trying for quite a while, and with just about every firmware version I can locate but still not had any luck.
With the latest kernel (2.6.17-1.2617.2.1.fc6), I don't even seem to get a list of AP's that are around. From a quick google, it looks as though the bcm43xx driver might be a fair bit out of the actual bcm43xx development - as there seems to be a patch back in July that *may* fix this IRQ issue.
I just gave it a try on my Acer 4005WMLi that is running rawhide as of two hours ago. The firmware file used with bcm43xx-fwcutter seems to have an impact on the proper working. I used the wl_apsta.o firmware file. After that I loaded the bcm43xx module, configured /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf with my network (uses WPA-AES/CCMP) and configured /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant with the proper settings. Then started wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and wpa_gui and amazingly enough it actually found my AP and authenticated itself successfully and got an IP address via DHCP. So this method seems to work. Haven't tried NetworkManager yet but my experience with that so far were not good.
Regards, Patrick
On 06/09/2006, at 2:55 AM, Patrick wrote:
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 01:01 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
Has anyone managed to get a BCM4306 wifi card working with rawhide? I've been trying for quite a while, and with just about every firmware version I can locate but still not had any luck.
With the latest kernel (2.6.17-1.2617.2.1.fc6), I don't even seem to get a list of AP's that are around. From a quick google, it looks as though the bcm43xx driver might be a fair bit out of the actual bcm43xx development - as there seems to be a patch back in July that *may* fix this IRQ issue.
I just gave it a try on my Acer 4005WMLi that is running rawhide as of two hours ago. The firmware file used with bcm43xx-fwcutter seems to have an impact on the proper working. I used the wl_apsta.o firmware file. After that I loaded the bcm43xx module,
Which version was it that you used? I've tried multiple drivers with no luck as yet. The latest one I have tried is 4.10.40.0 from the Dell driver that I use in Windows.
configured /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf with my network (uses WPA-AES/CCMP) and configured /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant with the proper settings. Then started wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and wpa_gui and amazingly enough it actually found my AP and authenticated itself successfully and got an IP address via DHCP. So this method seems to work. Haven't tried NetworkManager yet but my experience with that so far were not good.
I have been trying to use both iwconfig and NetworkManager with no luck.
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 07:26 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote: [snip]
I just gave it a try on my Acer 4005WMLi that is running rawhide as of two hours ago. The firmware file used with bcm43xx-fwcutter seems to have an impact on the proper working. I used the wl_apsta.o firmware file. After that I loaded the bcm43xx module,
Which version was it that you used? I've tried multiple drivers with no luck as yet. The latest one I have tried is 4.10.40.0 from the Dell driver that I use in Windows.
Iirc the consensus is to use a version 3 driver below 3.100.x. Anyway the file is called "wl_apsta.o" and has no version. http://openwrt.inf.fh-brs.de/~nbd/wl_apsta.o
[snip]
I have been trying to use both iwconfig and NetworkManager with no luck.
Just tried wpa_supplicant & NetworkManager. It does not work with WiFi, bcm43xx and WPA. Then again, the bcm43xx sometimes needs to be removed and inserted again when it gets lost so the bcm43xx module is probably to blame too. Also tried ndiswrapper version 1.23 with wpa_supplicant and NetworkManager. Same story. No go.
In both cases (bcm43xx & ndiswrapper) I can start wpa_supplicant and wpa_gui from the commandline, see it authenticate in a jiffy and issue dhclient eth1 to get an IP address.
Regards, Patrick
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 01:01 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
Has anyone managed to get a BCM4306 wifi card working with rawhide? I've been trying for quite a while, and with just about every firmware version I can locate but still not had any luck.
You are in luck. I just went thru that with a card I was installing this week.
I followed the instructions from here, http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=115572 which is linked to from here: http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html
I had to use the driver gotten in the 80211g.zip package from the link on that page because the version on my CD would not create the proper firmware package.
With the latest kernel (2.6.17-1.2617.2.1.fc6), I don't even seem to get a list of AP's that are around. From a quick google, it looks as though the bcm43xx driver might be a fair bit out of the actual bcm43xx development - as there seems to be a patch back in July that *may* fix this IRQ issue.
I am using FC5 with kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5
dmesg shows the following:
Is anyone successfully using this card? Mine is in a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop.
My system is a desktop and the card is an AirLink PCI card.
-- Steven Haigh
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Quoting Jeff Vian jvian10@charter.net:
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 01:01 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
Has anyone managed to get a BCM4306 wifi card working with rawhide? I've been trying for quite a while, and with just about every firmware version I can locate but still not had any luck.
You are in luck. I just went thru that with a card I was installing this week.
I followed the instructions from here, http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=115572 which is linked to from here: http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html
I had to use the driver gotten in the 80211g.zip package from the link on that page because the version on my CD would not create the proper firmware package.
I tried the bcmwl5.sys on the 80211g.zip file, and it locked my machine hard on trying to load X.
Errors with: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! [<c04051ee>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x171 [<c0405802>] show_trace+0xd/0x10 [<c040591b>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<c0450d37>] softlockup_tick+0xa5/0xb9 [<c042d998>] run_local_timers+0x12/0x14 [<c042dd17>] update_process_times+0x3c/0x61 [<c041740b>] smp_local_timer_interrupt+0x2e/0x31 [<c0407b53>] timer_interrupt+0x50/0x79 [<c0450fa8>] handle_IRQ_event+0x20/0x4d [<c0451069>] __do_IRQ+0x94/0xef [<c040678d>] do_IRQ+0x9e/0xbd [<c0404a49>] common_interrupt+0x25/0x2c DWARF unwinder stack at common_interrupt+0x25/0x2c Leftover inexact backtrace: =======================
The machine is then dead.
With the latest kernel (2.6.17-1.2617.2.1.fc6), I don't even seem to get a list of AP's that are around. From a quick google, it looks as though the bcm43xx driver might be a fair bit out of the actual bcm43xx development - as there seems to be a patch back in July that *may* fix this IRQ issue.
I am using FC5 with kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5
dmesg shows the following:
Is anyone successfully using this card? Mine is in a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop.
My system is a desktop and the card is an AirLink PCI card.
This could be the difference.