Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2006-01-12 Thread Maurizio
Hello.Actually I did. I just noticed that the very first time I ty modprobe, I getbcm43xx: no version for ieee80211softmac_wx_set_rate found: kernel tainted.bcm43xx: Unknown symbol udelay (and only the second line appears again if I re-try)So, I guess I'm missing something when I build the driver,

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2006-01-11 Thread Maurizio
Hello. I was able to follow the procedure to build thebcm43xx driver. Anyhow, when I try to modprobe the it I getUnknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)and dmesg says bcm43xx: Unknown symbol udelayI guess I did something stupid, but I don't know what. Does domeonehave any

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2006-01-11 Thread Bin Zhang
On 1/12/06, Maurizio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I was able to follow the procedure to build the bcm43xx driver. Anyhow, when I try to modprobe the it I get Maybe you forgot make install the driver. Bin Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) and dmesg says

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-10 Thread Bin Zhang
On 12/10/05, Maladrie Julien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile this driver unsuccesfully since 3 days. When i try to compile ieee80211softmac, i've errors like : make -C /lib/modules/2.6.14.3/build Try 2.6.15-rc5. Regards, Bin

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-10 Thread Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot
El sáb, 10-12-2005 a las 18:01 +0100, Maladrie Julien escribió: Hi, I'm trying to compile this driver unsuccesfully since 3 days. When i try to compile ieee80211softmac, i've errors like : make -C /lib/modules/2.6.14.3/build Hi Maladrie: You need 2.6.15, from the README: Requirements

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-10 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Maladrie Julien wrote: It's just the first lines. After this, i've apt-get iee80211softmac, you've apt-getted ieee80211softmac ?? -- Yves-Alexis Perez http://www.corsac.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-10 Thread Maladrie Julien
Yves-Alexis Perez a écrit : Maladrie Julien wrote: It's just the first lines. After this, i've apt-get iee80211softmac, you've apt-getted ieee80211softmac ?? Sorry, i made a mistake, it's only the iee80211-source, the network wireless stack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 01:14 +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:28:16PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Jesus Climent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The max. transfer ratio i get is around 500KB/s, but it is better than a zd1211 which seems to Oops my kernel and poweroff my

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-09 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
Johannes Berg wrote: While a lot of work remains to be done (mostly on the softmac, read on), a bunch of people are actually using the driver under linux now to get access to the internet. So here's the official announcement: http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/announcement.pdf The main berlios

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-09 Thread Jesus Climent
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 01:20:42AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 00:57 +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: 54M, using iwconfig eth2 rate 54M try going to 11M. Yeah sounds weird. Strange enough, at 11M it works at 1.1MB/s (i am using scp, so there is an overhead punishment, but

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-09 Thread Jesus Climent
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:28:59AM +0100, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: Johannes Berg wrote: Hi All, i just tried the snapshots dated 12-08 , install went smoothly. I'm configuring my interface using static IP address and i'm able to scan for networks using iwlist scan however, it seems i

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-09 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 09:28 +0100, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: Has anyone managed to get the thing working with hidden ESSID ? Cannot work yet. You might try to do active scanning my uncommenting the relevant code in ieee80211softmac_scan.c johannes signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-09 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 10:02 +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: I get some bcm43xx: ieee80211_rx() failed That's a misunderstanding. If ieee80211_rx returns an error that means we can free or reuse the packet. Ignore it, it is not an error, just means that you caught packets ieee80211 didn't think were

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-09 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
Johannes Berg wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 09:28 +0100, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: Has anyone managed to get the thing working with hidden ESSID ? Cannot work yet. Ok, good to know. You might try to do active scanning my uncommenting the relevant code in ieee80211softmac_scan.c

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-09 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
Jesus Climent wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:28:59AM +0100, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: Johannes Berg wrote: Hi All, i just tried the snapshots dated 12-08 , install went smoothly. I'm configuring my interface using static IP address and i'm able to scan for networks using

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
driver bug in bcm43xx_phy_setupg() (line 333 bcm43xx_phy.c) but the code seems to carry on successfully in that case. Do you see something like that as well? Yes, same thing here. That's bogus. the code there is correct afaict. I still see the message. After adding wireless options

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-08 Thread Jesus Climent
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:40:04PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: While a lot of work remains to be done (mostly on the softmac, read on), a bunch of people are actually using the driver under linux now to get access to the internet. So here's the official announcement:

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-08 Thread Otavio Salvador
Jesus Climent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The max. transfer ratio i get is around 500KB/s, but it is better than a zd1211 which seems to Oops my kernel and poweroff my machine every other time i connect with it. I use the zd1211 adapted that I bought there in Finland and it works pretty fine

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-08 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 13:19 +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: The max. transfer ratio i get is around 500KB/s, Sounds pretty bad. But then, we don't do any time synchronisation yet, so you'll probably have quite a few collisions. What bitrate are you using? johannes signature.asc Description: This

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-08 Thread Jesus Climent
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 06:48:37PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 13:19 +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: The max. transfer ratio i get is around 500KB/s, Sounds pretty bad. But then, we don't do any time synchronisation yet, so you'll probably have quite a few collisions.

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-08 Thread Jesus Climent
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:28:16PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Jesus Climent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The max. transfer ratio i get is around 500KB/s, but it is better than a zd1211 which seems to Oops my kernel and poweroff my machine every other time i connect with it. I use

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-08 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 00:57 +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: 54M, using iwconfig eth2 rate 54M try going to 11M. Yeah sounds weird. johannes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
Ok, bad news... After trying bcm43xx for a while I 'svn up'ed the driver to revision 808 and also upgraded wireless-tools to version 27+28pre11 and softmac...damn! Softmac gave compilation errors that I managed to solve, but don't know if this made the code not to work properly... I don't

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-07 Thread Johannes Berg
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 13:19 +0100, Antonio-Miguel Corbi Bellot wrote: On firmware load (after ifconfig eth1 up) I get a warning about a possible driver bug in bcm43xx_phy_setupg() (line 333 bcm43xx_phy.c) but the code seems to carry on successfully in that case. Do you see something like

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-07 Thread Antonio-Miguel Corbi Bellot
El mié, 07-12-2005 a las 12:36 +0100, Michael Schmitz escribió: Softmac gave compilation errors that I managed to solve, but don't know if this made the code not to work properly... I don't recall compile errors in softmac - there's a bunch of warnings about unavailable symbols but the

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-07 Thread Bin Zhang
On 12/7/05, Antonio-Miguel Corbi Bellot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El mié, 07-12-2005 a las 12:36 +0100, Michael Schmitz escribió: Softmac gave compilation errors that I managed to solve, but don't know if this made the code not to work properly... I don't recall compile errors in

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-06 Thread Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot
El lun, 05-12-2005 a las 22:29 +0100, Bin Zhang escribió: On 12/5/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had problem with dhcp. Using a static address works. I can't use ifdown eth1, it freezes my ibook. I use modprobe -r bcm43xx as a workaround. Ok, bad news... After trying

[ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-05 Thread Johannes Berg
While a lot of work remains to be done (mostly on the softmac, read on), a bunch of people are actually using the driver under linux now to get access to the internet. So here's the official announcement: http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/announcement.pdf The main berlios website is currently

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-05 Thread Jay States
All I have to say is THANK YOU. keep up the great work, I'll try it out and provide feedback. again THANKS, J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-05 Thread Antonio-Miguel Corbi Bellot
El lun, 05-12-2005 a las 13:40 +0100, Johannes Berg escribió: While a lot of work remains to be done (mostly on the softmac, read on), a bunch of people are actually using the driver under linux now to get access to the internet. So here's the official announcement:

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
I don't know if this is expected to happen with this version of the software...I mean I'll try later to give eth1 a static IP address and see what happens. People reported problems with dhcp, try a static address Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-05 Thread Bin Zhang
On 12/5/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if this is expected to happen with this version of the software...I mean I'll try later to give eth1 a static IP address and see what happens. People reported problems with dhcp, try a static address I had problem

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-05 Thread Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot
El mar, 06-12-2005 a las 08:00 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt escribió: I don't know if this is expected to happen with this version of the software...I mean I'll try later to give eth1 a static IP address and see what happens. People reported problems with dhcp, try a static address Yep,