Hello. I am the owner of a card (a LinkSys Wireless-G WPC54GS (ver.2)) which has a 4318 chip:
kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2kernel: bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4 kernel: bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243, enabled kernel: bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, disabled kernel: bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x804, rev 0xc, vendor 0x4243, enabled kernel: bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x80d, rev 0x7, vendor 0x4243, enabled Last July I wrote to this list about the level of success I was having with getting the card to work under Debian testing [1]. At that point, the card was managing to associate with the access point and obtain an IP address about one time in ten. That was with kernel version 2.6.17. I have barely used the card since then---because it wasn't really usable, and because I scan or read the digest version of this list every day and my impression from that was that the issues around the 4318 chipsets hadn't really been addressed yet. However, three days ago, I thought I should try again. I've been using the card with two slightly different kernel versions: 2.6.18.1 hand-compiled from kernel.org and 2.6.18.3 packaged for Debian. And it's been working just fine. True, I can't use Debian's ifup script, and automation utilities like network-manager and KDE's kwifi-manager also can't create a working connection, but if I do: ifconfig wlan up iwconfig essid ESSID-NAME dhclient wlan all works consistently very well. That is, I have had no failures of association at all over the past 3 days, despite more or less continuous use and despite the fact that I have been deliberately connecting and disconnecting, suspending and resuming, and so on to try to test the card (I'm listening to an Irish radio stream with it just now). Also: `iwlist wlan scan' used to regularly cause hard lockups of the system, but I haven't been able to induce that behaviour over the 3 day period either. The only change here is the kernel version---same laptop, same access point, same number of access points in the vicinity. I haven't tried with 2.6.19, but obviously I should. So this is just a progress report and a note of thanks to you all for your work. Obviously, I'm happy. But am I wrong to be also a little bit puzzled? Jim [1] https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2006-July/002095.html _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
