> No bcm43xx card works at higher than 11 MBs. Whenever any
> of the higher rates are selected, the TX signal strength drops
> considerably.

Okay, I thought it was something similar.


> As you have git cloned the wireless-2.6 tree, it is very simple to do
> a git pull to update your source. You really should do that as a number
> of bugs that would cause your crashes and hangs have been fixed in the
> past couple of months.

I finally got around to it, thanks.  In fact, with my untrained git
skills I managed to mess it up due to the patches i'd applied earlier.
 (PCI-E and manually enabling 4311.)

Anyways, I ended up just re-cloning the wireless-2.6 tree using cg-clone.


> I'm pretty sure the problem is with the x86_64 version that I'm running
> No interrupts are delivered to the software.

I've been meaning to set up a partition with a 64-bit installation of
Ubuntu or something, so when I manage to do that I'll let you know.


On to the results:

I compiled and installed wireless-2.6 with no problems.  Bcm43xx was
detected, and you are right, it seems much more stable. Even the
radio-enable light turns on and off appropriately when I toggle the
switch.

Unfortunately, though, it acts as if it the radio is turned off.  I
cannot associate with any AP, and "iwlist eth2 scan" lists nothing.

Now that I'm on an untouched wireless-2.6 kernel, I'll try to git-pull
more often and test whenever updates are available.

(Is this the best method for testing the latest changes? I could apply
patches manually, but I'll have to learn how to "undo" those in git
properly.)


Anyways, I'll end this message with my "dmesg|grep bcm" output.

Thanks,
Steve


bcm43xx driver
bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4311, rev 0x1
bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x11, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0xa, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x817, rev 0x3, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x820, rev 0x1, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 4, Type 2, Revision 8
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 0x127, pl 0xe (2005-04-18  02:36:27)
bcm43xx: Radio turned on
bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware
bcm43xx: Chip initialized
bcm43xx: 32-bit DMA initialized
bcm43xx: Keys cleared
bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
bcm43xx: set security called, .active_key = 0, .level = 1, .enabled =
1, .encryp t = 1
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