So I just bought an HP nx9600 laptop and installed Fedora Core 5. The Fedora kernel version is 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp but to be honest I haven't run down what version of of the bcm43xx module it is they ship. I grabbed the latest windows driver from the HP web site (
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqnk/us/download/23254.html) and eventually managed to pull out the firmware using the fwcutter software I found on the project homepage. So now I'm at the point where the module loads correctly. My network is an
802.11b 40 bit WEP protected cisco 1200 AP and I don't at the moment have an unsecured network to test on. I can almost certainly get an unsecured network if it will help get this driver working.
I don't seem to be able to associate with the access point. Below are the results that I figure might be relevant. There may be a lot more you want, and if so, just ask! Basically what I am doing is modprobing the module, bringing up the interface (the little blue light on the laptop actually turns on), assigning the key and bit rate, and then setting the ssid. When I set the SSID the latop because very 'slow' for about a minute. Keystokes are missed, some are slow to appear, the mouse is basically useless, yada yada ydada. Seems after about a minute things start to work again. Having about 600,000 interrupts on a wireless network with only 1 other machine during the 1-2 minutes this module was loaded seems like a bit of a problem. If left alone the messages about 'bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed' and "XMIT ERROR" seem to persist forever at rate of about 1 per minute. The XMIT error messages are always exactly the same.
If there is something I need to test/try/do/look/see/anything please just let me know. I'd love to not need a wireless card hanging out the side of this beauty!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspci
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0b:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dmesg -c
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modprobe bcm43xx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ifconfig eth 1 up
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth: unknown interface: No such device
eth: unknown interface: No such device
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rmmod bcm43xx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dmesg -c
bcm43xx driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0b:03.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2
bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x804, rev 0xc, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x80d, rev 0x7, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 3, Type 2, Revision 7
bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 8205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 8)
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modprobe bcm43xx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ifconfig eth1 up
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# iwconfig eth1 key 9876543210
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# iwconfig eth1 rate 11MB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# iwconfig eth1 essid home
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"home" Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
Mode:Managed Frequency=
2.427 GHz Access Point: Invalid
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:9876-5432-10 Security mode:open
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dmesg
bcm43xx driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0b:03.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2
bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, disabled
bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x804, rev 0xc, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x80d, rev 0x7, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 3, Type 2, Revision 7
bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 8205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 8)
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Radio turned on
bcm43xx: Chip initialized
bcm43xx: DMA initialized
bcm43xx: 80211 cores initialized
bcm43xx: Keys cleared
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
bcm43xx: set security called
bcm43xx: .active_key = 0
bcm43xx: .level = 1
bcm43xx: .enabled = 1
bcm43xx: .encrypt = 1
SoftMAC: net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c:176:ieee80211softmac_assoc_work()
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC: net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c:176:ieee80211softmac_assoc_work()
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
printk: 1 messages suppressed.
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
printk: 2 messages suppressed.
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
printk: 3 messages suppressed.
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
printk: 2 messages suppressed.
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
printk: 3 messages suppressed.
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC: net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c:176:ieee80211softmac_assoc_work()
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
printk: 2 messages suppressed.
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: XMIT ERROR
bcm43xx: Generic Reason: 0x00042800
bcm43xx: DMA reasons: 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000
bcm43xx: DMA TX status: 0x00002000, 0x0d001000, 0x00002000, 0x00002000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 694857 745407 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 557 1036 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 23754 30328 IO-APIC-level acpi
12: 12101 18455 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 36972 35041 IO-APIC-edge ide0
16: 5408 5520 IO-APIC-level yenta, uhci_hcd:usb4
17: 63820 542581 IO-APIC-level bcm43xx
18: 1 0 IO-APIC-level Intel ICH6, Intel ICH6 Modem, ohci1394
19: 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb3
20: 2 6 IO-APIC-level eth0
21: 877 756 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb5
22: 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb2
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 1432346 1481200
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
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