bcm43xx with 2.6.21 vanilla and larry's combined patch loops; with the bcm-softmac-sa fails to associate [4311]

[Ehud Gavron]

Ok, so I was bored... and installed the 2.6.21 kernel.
I then patch -p1 < combined_2.6.21.patch
make
make modules_install
make install
sync && reboot -f





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tar -jxvf bcm-softmac-sa.tar.bz2
cd bcm-softmac-sa
make
make install
sync && reboot -f




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Thanks

Ehud

[EMAIL PROTECTED] lfinger]# uname -a

[EMAIL PROTECTED] lfinger]# lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 8086:27a0 (rev 03)
00:01.0 0604: 8086:27a1 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 01)
00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 0604: 8086:27d2 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 0604: 8086:27d4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:27ca (rev 01)
00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:27cb (rev 01)
00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:27cc (rev 01)
00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev e1)
00:1f.0 0601: 8086:27b9 (rev 01)
00:1f.2 0101: 8086:27c4 (rev 01)
00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:27da (rev 01)
01:00.0 0300: 10de:01d7 (rev a1)
03:01.0 0607: 1217:6972 (rev 40)
09:00.0 0200: 14e4:1600 (rev 02)
0c:00.0 0280: 14e4:4311 (rev 01)

The bcm43xx modules reports associated... scanning... associated... with another message in the middle, about once every half second without stopping. The dmesg shows radio on, link not ready, link associated, radio off, [repeats] At this point it appears to be a race condition to unload the bcm43xx module. A simple ifdown eth1 && rmmod bcm43xx will either succeed, or crash (and crash is either the system is frozen, or a kernel panic). An rmmod bcm43xx without the ifdown triggers similar responses. At this point the adapter behaves much like it did back in the 2.6.18 days. The essid I give it via iwconfig only shows the first letter, and eventually switches to "Broadcom 4311" or the like. The WEP key remains as programmed. It never associates. The log shows scanning... scanning... never associates. One more note. Prior to installing bcm-softmac-sa the bcm43xx scan identifies 13 channels. After installing bcm-softw=mac-ca the scan identifies 14 channels. I hope I'm not wasting everyone's time with a known issue. If I'm not, kindly let me know what I'm doing wrong so that I can build it correctly and get it working to help further the testing process... PS I am running the nvidia video driver... but the same symptoms were occurring prior to its installation. Linux egdell.login.com 2.6.21 #1 SMP Thu May 3 22:12:46 MST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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