Larry Finger wrote: > Ioannis Nousias wrote: >> I'm using 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 (that's Fedora 7) and I only heave the >> development package for my kernel, which is not a complete kernel >> source, but is enough to compile some kernel modules against it (I've >> tried with uvc-linux for instance) > > You can try the stand-alone version of bcm43xx, ieee80211 and softmac > from ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/bcm43xx-softmac-sa.tar.bz2. > If that doesn't work, you will need to get the full sources for > 2.6.21.5 from kernel.org. > > Larry > > > yes, that's a lot better. Still unable to connect, but at least the card is initialised.
this is what I get now in dmesg: SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 13 channels starting with channel 1 ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP' bcm43xx: set security called, .active_key = 0, .level = 2, .enabled = 1, .encrypt = 1 bcm43xx: set security called, .enabled = 1, .encrypt = 1 eth1: no IPv6 routers present SoftMAC: sent association request! bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 bcm43xx: Radio turned off bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0260 (RX) max used slots: 1/64 bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 1/64 bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x02A0 (TX) max used slots: 0/512 bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0280 (TX) max used slots: 0/512 bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0260 (TX) max used slots: 0/512 bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/512 bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0220 (TX) max used slots: 65/512 bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/512 bcm43xx: PHY disconnected 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: 30-bit DMA initialized bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at /home/s0238762/Desktop/bcm43xx-softmac-sa/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_m ain.c:1144 ... bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at /home/s0238762/Desktop/bcm43xx-softmac-sa/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_m ain.c:1146 ... bcm43xx: Keys cleared bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2) ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready I'm sitting 5meters apart from the router. The signal indication in NetworkManager is nearly full strength. at least we are getting there. Thanks Ioannis PS: This standalone one is from April. Are there any recent ones? PS2: once loaded the module can not be removed. rmmod (or modprobe -r) do nothing on it. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
