Ryan Hurley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running a newer Compaq laptop (v3000 series) which has one of these
> wonderful broadcom PCI-E 4311 chips in them.  I've been testing the
> devicescape bcm43xx  drivers from the wireless-dev tree for awhile, but
> I still haven't gotten anything to work.  This is the first time I've
> submitted to a development list proper, so I apologize in advance if
> I've forgotten anything or done something incorrectly.
> 
--snip--

> 
> Even though lspci identifies this as a BCM4310 (UART), I've been told
> that this is actually a 4311 core.
> 
> I compiled a 2.6.19.1 <http://2.6.19.1> kernel to test out the new PCI-E
> patches this afternoon, and while it compiled cleanly and was able to
> scan, I was unable to associate with any access points, encrypted or
> otherwise.  The relevant parts of dmesg are:
> 
> ....
> [  127.078000] bcm43xx driver
> [  127.080000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK2E] enabled at IRQ 19
> [  127.080000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LK2E] -> GSI
> 19 (level, high) -> IRQ 20
> [  127.080000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
> [  127.087000] bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4311, rev 0x1

It is a 4311.

> [  127.087000] bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
> [  127.087000] bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x11, vendor 0x4243, enabled
> [  127.087000] bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0xa, vendor 0x4243, disabled
> [  127.087000] bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x817, rev 0x3, vendor 0x4243, disabled
> [  127.087000] bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x820, rev 0x1, vendor 0x4243, enabled
> [  127.088000] bcm43xx: PHY connected
> [  127.088000] bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 4, Type 2, Revision 8
> [  127.088000] bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver:
> 2050 Rev: 2)
> [  127.088000] bcm43xx: Radio turned off
> [  127.088000] bcm43xx: Radio turned off
> [  127.153000] bcm43xx: PHY connected
> [  127.252000] bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x127, pl 0xe (2005-04-18  02:36:27)
> [  127.260000] bcm43xx: Radio turned on
> [  127.260000 ] bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware
> [  127.449000] bcm43xx: Chip initialized
> [  127.449000] bcm43xx: 32-bit DMA initialized
> [  127.449000] bcm43xx: Keys cleared
> [  127.449000] bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
> [  128.758000] SoftMAC: Authentication response received from
> 00:11:50:a2:14:36 but no queue item exists.
> [  129.527000] bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0,
> .encrypt = 0
> [  130.631000] bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0,
> .encrypt = 0
> [  130.631000] bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0,
> .encrypt = 0
> [  130.631000] bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0,
> .encrypt = 0
> [  130.631000] bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0,
> .encrypt = 0
> [  130.899000] SoftMAC: Authentication response received from
> 00:14:6c:03:c5:ff but no queue item exists.
> [  130.899000] SoftMAC: Authentication response received from
> 00:14:6c:03:c5:ff but no queue item exists.
> [  130.900000] SoftMAC: Authentication response received from
> 00:14:6c:03:c5:ff but no queue item exists.
> [  136.380000] SoftMAC: Authentication response received from
> 00:11:50:a2:14:36 but no queue item exists.
> [  137.977000] SoftMAC: Authentication response received from
> 00:14:6c:03:c5:ff but no queue item exists.
> [  137.977000] SoftMAC: Authentication response received from
> 00:14:6c:03:c5:ff but no queue item exists.
> [  137.978000 ] SoftMAC: Authentication response received from
> 00:14:6c:03:c5:ff but no queue item exists.
> [  141.200000] bcm43xx: Radio turned off
> 
> I turned the radio off myself when it failed to authenticate.  I
> repeated the process, (rmmod bcm43xx, modprobe 43xx, and then attempt to
> connect)  but got  an identical result.

If you do an 'iwlist s', what do you see? It seems that you have debugging 
turned on in SoftMAC, but
I see no indication that anything attempted to scan.

> Oh, and there's one other thing that I'd like to bring to the attention
> of this list.  The bcm43xx driver supplied with the default Ubuntu Edgy
> kernel works.  It runs very, very slowly (about 20 KB/s for download and
> even slower for upload) but it identifies my chip and authenticates- the
> whole 9 yards.  Just a heads up.

I'll have to pull that kernel to see what code is in there.

Larry

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