hello,

does the driver have a 'run-time' option/parameter to enable printing of 
debug information or at least be more verbose ?

basically I can't get it to work and it doesn't report any warning/error 
messages. The only information I have is the following:

I'm using Fedora's 7 2.6.21 kernel on a Dell D800 laptop. I extracted 
the firmware from this file (using bcm43xx-fwcutter): 
http://boredklink.googlepages.com/wl_apsta.o

modprobe reports this:
$ sudo /sbin/modprobe -v bcm43xx
insmod 
/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211.ko
insmod 
/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/kernel/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac.ko 

insmod 
/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx.ko 


dmesg reports this:
$ dmesg | tail
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

disabling and enabling the device again reports this (that's using the 
<Fn>-F2 key):
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 4
atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x88 on 
isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e008 <keycode>' to make it known.
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

i.e. I make sure the device is enabled (I can see it in hal device 
manager properly identified), but iwconfig says:
$ /sbin/iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

I also have a modprobe configuration file named 'modprobe.bcm43xx' with 
the following contents:
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.bcm43xx
alias pci:v000014E4d0x00004301sv*sd*bc*sc*i* bcm43xx
alias pci:v000014E4d0x00004307sv*sd*bc*sc*i* bcm43xx
alias pci:v000014E4d0x00004318sv*sd*bc*sc*i* bcm43xx
alias pci:v000014E4d0x00004320sv*sd*bc*sc*i* bcm43xx
alias pci:v000014E4d0x00004324sv*sd*bc*sc*i* bcm43xx
alias pci:v000014E4d0x00004325sv*sd*bc*sc*i* bcm43xx

mine has the 4324 id:
$ /sbin/lspci -nn | grep -i bcm43
02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 
802.11a/b/g [14e4:4324] (rev 02)


thank you

-Ioannis


PS: I used to have it working with ndiswrapper when I had Fedora Core 6, 
but I'd like to use the native driver now. I made sure the bcm43xx 
driver is not in modprobe's blacklist any more.

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