On 6/18/07, Brennan Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On 6/18/07, Chuckk Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>
> Hi.
> I have a 4311 on a Gateway MX6447.  I am running 64studio, an offshoot
> of Debian.  I downloaded kernel 2.6.21 and patched it to 2.6.22-rc4 (for
> my soundcard), copied the configuration, and made sure all the bcm43xx
> options were selected.  I compiled the kernel, installed bcm43xx-fwcutter,
> and ran it on wl_apsta.o from
> http://boredklink.googlepages.com/wl_apsta.o
>
> I did try re-cutting the firmware, and now "bcm43xx-fwcutter
> /lib/firmware ./wl_apsta.o" says that wl_apsta.o has an invalid checksum;
> however, when I checked the sum under Windows, it told me a different number
> than what fwcutter said.
>

I think that that is an old firmware, try the one here
http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o



Thanks Brennan.  Alas, no luck.  "dmesg" gives me:

ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
bcm43xx driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64
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: Analog: 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)
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
bcm43xx: set security called, .active_key = 0, .level = 1, .enabled = 1,
.encrypt = 1
SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:0e:a6:71:de:05
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
eth1: no IPv6 routers present


I believe the last bit was after I ran 'iwconfig'.  Linux still recognizes
the list of AP's, and still says that it is connected to one, and I still
get nothing.
Any ideas?

-Chuckk

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