Re: b43 and WPA-PSK
On 02/22/2010 02:03 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: I'm trying to get the b43 driver working on a Linksys WRTSL54GS router. It's running Openwrt with the 2.6.32 kernel. The good news is that the driver picks up a lot of APs with ease, far more than the binary blob. The bad news is that I can't get encryption working. The output from iwlist scan is here: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=103469#p103469 I can't configure it to use WPA-PSK or WPA-PSK2; it simply doesn't see encryption. I don't have any WEP APs around so I can't test around those. It connects to open APs quite well. (I haven't tested it much as the open AP is one of my neighbors, and I really don't want to steal his broadband.) I was hoping someone else would answer your mail, but as no one has come forward, I will try. I am not an expert on openWRT. I am using the version of Kamikaze with a 2.4 kernel on a WRT54GL, but the firmware is out of the box. What I do know is that the BCM4318 does work with WPA/WPA2, although my device is Cardbus format in an old laptop. Using Broadcom's proprietary firmware, as you seem to be doing, the encryption/decryption is done in the hardware. I'm a little confused on your usage of the device. As an AP, I see no need to scan. Are you using it as a station, or as a wireless bridge? In these modes, would not the bridging code to eth0 get in the way? Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: b43 and WPA-PSK
On Tue, February 23, 2010 4:57 pm, Larry Finger wrote: What I do know is that the BCM4318 does work with WPA/WPA2, although my device is Cardbus format in an old laptop. Using Broadcom's proprietary firmware, as you seem to be doing, the encryption/decryption is done in the hardware. The issues seems to be with the version of wireless utils in the latest openwrt snapshot. Sure looked like a driver issue,though. I'm a little confused on your usage of the device. As an AP, I see no need to scan. Are you using it as a station, or as a wireless bridge? In these modes, would not the bridging code to eth0 get in the way? I am using it in STA mode. I set up a separate network for the wireless and do not use bridging. I have to wan ports in effect - one for the wireless and one for wired. I don't use the wired port. It works quite well (or did, until I tried the b43 drivers at which point I also got the broken version of iwconfig/iwlist.) --Yan -- If you have eight hours to chop down a tree spend six sharpening your axe. --Abraham Lincoln ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: b43 and WPA-PSK
Yan Seiner wrote: On Tue, February 23, 2010 4:57 pm, Larry Finger wrote: What I do know is that the BCM4318 does work with WPA/WPA2, although my device is Cardbus format in an old laptop. Using Broadcom's proprietary firmware, as you seem to be doing, the encryption/decryption is done in the hardware. The issues seems to be with the version of wireless utils in the latest openwrt snapshot. Sure looked like a driver issue,though. I'm a little confused on your usage of the device. As an AP, I see no need to scan. Are you using it as a station, or as a wireless bridge? In these modes, would not the bridging code to eth0 get in the way? I am using it in STA mode. I set up a separate network for the wireless and do not use bridging. I have to wan ports in effect - one for the wireless and one for wired. I don't use the wired port. It works quite well (or did, until I tried the b43 drivers at which point I also got the broken version of iwconfig/iwlist.) --Yan Hi, Someone reports that the station mode is not working for him in OpenWRT with ath9k driver after the last update of compat-wireless in OpenWRT. It was reported in https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6712 probably this is not an issue in the ath9k/b43 driver but in some other part of OpenWRT. Please try if it helps using an older version of compat-wireless or using an older version of the hostapd/wpa-supplicant combination. (Just go back some revisions in the svn for that directories) Hauke signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: b43 and WPA-PSK
On Tue, February 23, 2010 8:38 pm, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: Yan Seiner wrote: On Tue, February 23, 2010 4:57 pm, Larry Finger wrote: What I do know is that the BCM4318 does work with WPA/WPA2, although my device is Cardbus format in an old laptop. Using Broadcom's proprietary firmware, as you seem to be doing, the encryption/decryption is done in the hardware. The issues seems to be with the version of wireless utils in the latest openwrt snapshot. Sure looked like a driver issue,though. I'm a little confused on your usage of the device. As an AP, I see no need to scan. Are you using it as a station, or as a wireless bridge? In these modes, would not the bridging code to eth0 get in the way? I am using it in STA mode. I set up a separate network for the wireless and do not use bridging. I have to wan ports in effect - one for the wireless and one for wired. I don't use the wired port. It works quite well (or did, until I tried the b43 drivers at which point I also got the broken version of iwconfig/iwlist.) --Yan Hi, Someone reports that the station mode is not working for him in OpenWRT with ath9k driver after the last update of compat-wireless in OpenWRT. It was reported in https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6712 probably this is not an issue in the ath9k/b43 driver but in some other part of OpenWRT. Please try if it helps using an older version of compat-wireless or using an older version of the hostapd/wpa-supplicant combination. (Just go back some revisions in the svn for that directories) Yes, that is the conclusion I came to. I opened a ticket earlier today. https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6732 I'll attach it to the other ticket. -- If you have eight hours to chop down a tree spend six sharpening your axe. --Abraham Lincoln ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Turn broadcom 4311 into master mode
Hello, I'm getting problems to turn my laptop in master mode. When I try to change the mode I get an error: sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode master Error for wireless request Set Mode (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. I followed the guide to install the drivers and the problem persists (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/devices), also tried to use the drivers installed from repositories of ubuntu karmic desktop, with and without networkmanager running The board is running fine, I have an broadcom 4311 rev 2 and running the driver b43 The kernel is from ubuntu, do I need any special compilation of it? lsmod | grep b43 b43 136552 0 ssb40944 1 b43 mac80211 209912 1 b43 cfg80211 109144 2 b43,mac80211 led_class 5256 1 b43 The driver creates two interfaces, with iwconfig: (other interfaces of my computer) ... wmaster0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID: Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Why I get Invalid Argument? The argument Isn't recognized... Thanks! ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: Turn broadcom 4311 into master mode
On 02/23/2010 08:43 PM, D1e6o! wrote: Hello, I'm getting problems to turn my laptop in master mode. When I try to change the mode I get an error: sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode master Error for wireless request Set Mode (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. I followed the guide to install the drivers and the problem persists (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/devices), also tried to use the drivers installed from repositories of ubuntu karmic desktop, with and without networkmanager running The board is running fine, I have an broadcom 4311 rev 2 and running the driver b43 The kernel is from ubuntu, do I need any special compilation of it? lsmod | grep b43 b43 136552 0 ssb40944 1 b43 mac80211 209912 1 b43 cfg80211 109144 2 b43,mac80211 led_class 5256 1 b43 The driver creates two interfaces, with iwconfig: (other interfaces of my computer) ... wmaster0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID: Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Why I get Invalid Argument? The argument Isn't recognized... That is not the correct way to set master or AP mode. One way is described in the first post in the openSYSE Wireless Forum at http://tinyurl.com/yzlp7nm. It contains the scripts needed to implement an AP using hostapd and DHCP. The firewall is left to you. This way will work with b43 as long as hostapd is 0.6.0 or later. Version 0.5.X will not work. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
