14e4:4315 (Dell Wireless 1397) cannot find networks after use of b43 driver

2010-03-23 Thread Chris Lopes
Hi, I had a perfectly working Dell system running Windows Vista and using version 5.60.188.1 of the Broadcom windows driver (distributed by Dell) for what Windows calls the Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card, which is actually 14e4:4315. I booted Parted Magic 4.9 from a USB flash drive, which

Re: 14e4:4315 (Dell Wireless 1397) cannot find networks after use of b43 driver

2010-03-23 Thread Larry Finger
On 03/23/2010 02:30 PM, Chris Lopes wrote: Hi, I had a perfectly working Dell system running Windows Vista and using version 5.60.188.1 of the Broadcom windows driver (distributed by Dell) for what Windows calls the Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card, which is actually 14e4:4315. I booted

Re: 14e4:4315 (Dell Wireless 1397) cannot find networks after use of b43 driver

2010-03-23 Thread Larry Finger
On 03/23/2010 02:53 PM, Chris Lopes wrote: Thanks for the quick reply. So are you saying that it is impossible that the b43 driver could have somehow made my wireless card unable to detect any networks after a reboot (in either Windows or Linux)? I don't know of any way that b43 could have

Re: 14e4:4315 (Dell Wireless 1397) cannot find networks after use of b43 driver

2010-03-23 Thread Chris Lopes
Ok. I got my wireless card to detect networks again. I also had a theory and tried to reproduce the problem, and was successful in doing so. Here are my steps to reproduce: 1) Have Vista running and connected to a wireless network 2) Hibernate Vista 3) Boot Parted Magic from a USB drive 4)

Re: 14e4:4315 (Dell Wireless 1397) cannot find networks after use of b43 driver

2010-03-23 Thread Larry Finger
On 03/23/2010 03:31 PM, Chris Lopes wrote: Ok. I got my wireless card to detect networks again. I also had a theory and tried to reproduce the problem, and was successful in doing so. Here are my steps to reproduce: 1) Have Vista running and connected to a wireless network 2) Hibernate

Re: 14e4:4315 (Dell Wireless 1397) cannot find networks after use of b43 driver

2010-03-23 Thread Chris Lopes
What does (or might) Wake On LAN have to do with this problem, exactly? 2010/3/24 Larry Finger larry.fin...@lwfinger.net: On 03/23/2010 03:31 PM, Chris Lopes wrote: Ok.  I got my wireless card to detect networks again.  I also had a theory and tried to reproduce the problem, and was successful

Re: 14e4:4315 (Dell Wireless 1397) cannot find networks after use of b43 driver

2010-03-23 Thread Chris Lopes
: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: 14e4:4315 (Dell Wireless 1397) cannot find networks after use of  b43 driver Ok.  I got my wireless card to detect networks again.  I also had a theory and tried to reproduce the problem, and was successful in doing so.  Here are my steps to reproduce: 1) Have

Re: 14e4:4315 (Dell Wireless 1397) cannot find networks after use of b43 driver

2010-03-23 Thread Chris Vine
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:31:42 +0700 Chris Lopes clo...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. I got my wireless card to detect networks again. I also had a theory and tried to reproduce the problem, and was successful in doing so. Here are my steps to reproduce: 1) Have Vista running and connected to a

Re: 14e4:4315 (Dell Wireless 1397) cannot find networks after use of b43 driver

2010-03-23 Thread Chris Lopes
I didn't try a cold reboot that did not involve the removal of battery and power supply, so maybe it would work. Honestly I am still perplexed (given modern hardware and software), as to why/how: 1) Hibernate and un-hibernate, regardless of what happens in between with the wireless card, could

Re: 14e4:4315 (Dell Wireless 1397) cannot find networks after use of b43 driver

2010-03-23 Thread Gábor Stefanik
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Chris Lopes clo...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't try a cold reboot that did not involve the removal of battery and power supply, so maybe it would work. Honestly I am still perplexed (given modern hardware and software), as to why/how: 1) Hibernate and

Re: 14e4:4315 (Dell Wireless 1397) cannot find networks after use of b43 driver

2010-03-23 Thread Chris Vine
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:37:45 +0100 Gábor Stefanik netrolller...@gmail.com wrote: (On 2.6.33, b43 works around this by falling back to PIO.) I think it requires 2.6.34 for this (currently 2.6.34-rc2). Chris ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list