Hello.
I'm trying to get a LinkSys Wireless G WPC54GS card to work, using the bcm43xx
driver. This card has the Broadcom 4318 chipset.
The kernel here is a hand-compiled version of 2.6.17. I have version 28-1 of
wireless-tools from Debian unstable, and udev 0.093 also from Debian unstable.
The card seems to be correctly identified by the kernel on insertion:
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Jul 7 09:26:19 lapdog kernel: pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
Jul 7 09:26:19 lapdog kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
Jul 7 09:26:19 lapdog kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> Link
[LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Jul 7 09:26:19 lapdog kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device
0000:03:00.0 to 64
Jul 7 09:26:19 lapdog kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2
Jul 7 09:26:19 lapdog kernel: bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
Jul 7 09:26:19 lapdog kernel: bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, vendor
0x4243, enabled
Jul 7 09:26:19 lapdog kernel: bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x9, vendor
0x4243, disabled
Jul 7 09:26:19 lapdog kernel: bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x804, rev 0xc, vendor
0x4243, enabled
Jul 7 09:26:19 lapdog kernel: bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x80d, rev 0x7, vendor
0x4243, enabled
Jul 7 09:26:19 lapdog kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
Jul 7 09:26:19 lapdog kernel: bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 3, Type 2,
Revision 7
Jul 7 09:26:19 lapdog kernel: bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 8205017f (Manuf:
17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 8)
Jul 7 09:26:19 lapdog kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off
Jul 7 09:26:19 lapdog kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off
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and the appropriate modules loaded by udev:
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bcm43xx 414720 0
ieee80211softmac 28032 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 31304 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
ieee80211_crypt 6272 1 ieee80211
yenta_socket 25484 2
rsrc_nonstatic 12544 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia 36268 0
firmware_class 10112 2 bcm43xx,pcmcia
ohci1394 32816 0
ieee1394 93620 1 ohci1394
pcmcia_core 40080 3 yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic,pcmcia
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If I call iwconfig, I get this:
wlang IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key: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
(I have a udev rule to assign the name wlang to the interface.)
The frustrating thing is that I can now *sometimes* get the card to work, but
only sometimes. If I bring up the interface by hand (ifconfig wlang up) and then
do:
iwlist wlang scan
it will usually (but not always) detect and list the two access points that are
within range:
wlang Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN
ESSID:"XXXXXXX"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54
Quality=100/100 Signal level=-197 dBm
Extra: Last beacon: 302ms ago
Cell 02 - Address: MM:MM:MM:MM:MM:MM
ESSID:"YYYYYY"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:11 Mb/s
Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11
Quality=100/100 Signal level=-199 dBm
Extra: Last beacon: 1086ms ago
If I then do:
iwconfig wlang essid XXXXXXX
dhclient wlang
about one time in 10 all goes well. For the other times, the logs show:
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Jul 7 09:35:31 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to
NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN.
Jul 7 09:35:36 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: Open Authentication with
NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN failed, error code: 1
Jul 7 09:35:36 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received from
NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN but no queue item exists.
Jul 7 09:35:43 lapdog kernel: printk: 4 messages suppressed.
Jul 7 09:35:52 lapdog kernel: printk: 26 messages suppressed.
Jul 7 09:35:52 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received from
NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN but no queue item exists.
Jul 7 09:35:59 lapdog kernel: printk: 6 messages suppressed.
Jul 7 09:35:59 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received from
NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN but no queue item exists.
Jul 7 09:35:59 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received from
NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN but no queue item exists.
Jul 7 09:36:00 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to
NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN
Jul 7 09:36:00 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: cannot associate without being
authenticated, requested authentication
Jul 7 09:36:00 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to
NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN.
Jul 7 09:36:07 lapdog kernel: printk: 3 messages suppressed.
Jul 7 09:36:07 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: Open Authentication with
NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN failed, error code: 1
Jul 7 09:36:28 lapdog kernel: printk: 9 messages suppressed.
Jul 7 09:36:28 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received from
NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN but no queue item exists.
Jul 7 09:36:28 lapdog last message repeated 4 times
Jul 7 09:36:37 lapdog kernel: printk: 9 messages suppressed.
Jul 7 09:36:37 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received from
NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN but no queue item exists.
Jul 7 09:36:44 lapdog kernel: printk: 6 messages suppressed.
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The one time over the past day or so that it worked:
Jul 6 13:53:42 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to
NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN
Jul 6 13:53:42 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: cannot associate without being
authenticated, requested authentication
Jul 6 13:53:42 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to
NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN.
Jul 6 13:53:42 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with
NN:NN:NN:NN:NN:NN
Jul 6 13:53:42 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: sent association request!
Jul 6 13:53:42 lapdog kernel: SoftMAC: associated!
Jul 6 13:54:01 lapdog dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1
Jul 6 13:54:01 lapdog dhclient: Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
Jul 6 13:54:01 lapdog dhclient: All rights reserved.
Jul 6 13:54:01 lapdog dhclient: For info, please visit
http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Jul 6 13:54:01 lapdog dhclient:
Jul 6 13:54:02 lapdog dhclient: Listening on LPF/wlang/00:16:b6:4a:42:a8
Jul 6 13:54:02 lapdog dhclient: Sending on LPF/wlang/00:16:b6:4a:42:a8
Jul 6 13:54:02 lapdog dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback
Jul 6 13:54:04 lapdog dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlang to 255.255.255.255 port
67 interval 6
Jul 6 13:54:05 lapdog dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
Jul 6 13:54:05 lapdog dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlang to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Jul 6 13:54:05 lapdog dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
Jul 6 13:54:05 lapdog dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.105 -- renewal in 41002
seconds.
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So it seems pretty clear that the problem is with the association procedure
(both
APs work fine with a range of other wireless cards, all 802.11b cards).
Is there any way I can help in solving this problem?
Thanks very much---for this, and for all your work on this project,
Jim
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