Reading
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-409194-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html
referred to from http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=documentation I saw the
first post updated 2006-10-17, and replied:
Ulmo
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Posts: 2
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:45 pm Post subject: Re: Native Airport Extreme
Drivers
Seems like a dev is directing discussion to the wrong forum
tree. Anyway, here's mine:
Mine is Gentoo x86 Dell Inspiron 5160 with BCM4309, Linux kernel
2.6.18-gentoo-r2ulmo-i; WORKS with bcm43xx as well as ndiswrapper.
JoseJX wrote:
7. Make sure that you have hotplug or >=udev-096 installed for
firmware loading support, wireless-tools for the iwconfig tool and
wpa_supplicant if you require WPA support. Note that if you have
>=udev-096 AND hotplug, the firmware loading is broken. See Gentoo
bug #147006 for details.
I have udev-087-r1, and it worked.
Quote:
4309 cards are not supported at this time due to issues with the A
PHY. It is being worked on, but there are no patches yet.
Mine is:
02:02.0 0280: 14e4:4324 (rev 03)
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g (rev 03)
Subsystem: 1028:0003
Subsystem: Dell Truemobile 1450 MiniPCI
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
Region 0: Memory at faffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
It worked same as ndiswrapper with:
bcmwl5a driver installed, hardware (14E4:4324) present (alternate driver:
bcm43xx)
with only an additional "ip l s dev eth2 up" command, and "iwconfig
eth2 channel 6" command and substituting device name. Not sure if
iwconfig ... channel 6 necessary. Note that I did first start the use
with ndiswrapper, then unloaded ndiswrapper module, then went to using
broadcom.
I do need and use enc:Code:
iwconfig eth2 enc restricted 1 9876543210 essid nameofmywap
No problem.
iwlist eth2 scan
iwconfig eth2 ...
both worked.
Just noticed: lsmod still has ndiswrapper after ndiswrapper
unloaded. Strange. lsmod:
Code:
Module Size Used by
ndiswrapper 187988 0
ieee80211_crypt_wep 4480 1
bcm43xx 421280 0
ieee80211softmac 31232 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 45804 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
ieee80211_crypt 5248 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211
tun 8960 1
snd_pcm_oss 40096 0
snd_mixer_oss 14848 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss 31616 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6912 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 49872 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 7180 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
ppp_generic 24468 0
slhc 6784 1 ppp_generic
cdc_acm 13600 0
ohci_hcd 18820 0
usbcore 115332 4 ndiswrapper,cdc_acm,ohci_hcd
nvidia 4548436 12
eth1394 17156 0
Route is DEFINATELY via bcm43xx device:
ip r outputs via eth2. eth2 is the bcm43xx device; wlan0 is the
ndiswrapper device. Not going via wlan0 now. So working (posting via
that now).
Whoa! ping -f shows only difference so far:
sudo ping -f 192.168.0.1 .
--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
1187 packets transmitted, 1186 received, +242 duplicates, 0% packet loss, time
1891ms
^^^
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.117/1.984/13.237/1.620 ms, pipe 2, ipg/ewma
1.595/1.900 ms
Another run with ping -f -s 1472 also gets duplicates, but ask for -s
1473 or above and it is above MTU, fragments, and doesn't duplicate
(perhaps defragmenting causes duplicates to be discarded and not
reported?).
dmesg output:
Code:
ndiswrapper version 1.28 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5a (Broadcom,11/27/2004, 3.100.35.0) loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 19
wlan0: vendor: ''
wlan0: ethernet device xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx using NDIS driver bcmwl5a,
14E4:4324.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP
with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
s6: Disabled Privacy Extensions
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
process `named' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT
sit0: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[...]
ndiswrapper: device wlan0 removed
usbcore: deregistering driver ndiswrapper
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
bcm43xx driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3
bcm43xx: Number of cores: 5
bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5, vendor 0x4243, disabled
bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, disabled
bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 2, Type 2, Revision 2
bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2)
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x123, pl 0x20 (2004-11-16 07:12:11)
bcm43xx: Radio turned on
bcm43xx: Chip initialized
bcm43xx: 32-bit DMA initialized
bcm43xx: Keys cleared
bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up?
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy
SoftMAC: Cannot associate without being authenticated, requested authentication
SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy.
SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy.
SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy.
SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy.
SoftMAC: Authentication timed out with yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
bcm43xx: set security called, .active_key = 0, .level = 1, .enabled = 1,
.encrypt = 1, .auth_mode = 1
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to zz:zz:zz:zz:zz:zz
SoftMAC: Cannot associate without being authenticated, requested authentication
SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to zz:zz:zz:zz:zz:zz.
SoftMAC: Shared Key Authentication completed with zz:zz:zz:zz:zz:zz
SoftMAC: sent association request!
SoftMAC: associated!
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth2: link becomes ready
eth2: no IPv6 routers present
atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x86 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e006 <keycode>' to make it known.
ndiswrapper version 1.28 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes)
usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper
bcm43xx: set security called, .active_key = 0, .level = 1, .enabled = 1,
.encrypt = 1, .auth_mode = 1
SoftMAC: Already associating or associated to zz:zz:zz:zz:zz:zz
process `dig' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT
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