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.



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