I have been playing with the bcm43xx driver since the beginning, and I
thought I would post what I now see under Fedora 7.
First, Fedora seems to only have the bcm43xx-mac80211 driver now, and so I
am using the v4 firmware from the link you guys have provided.
The driver loads, and here is what I get in dmesg:
ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x0D, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x09, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 2 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x0C, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 3 found: PCMCIA (cc 0x80D, rev 0x07, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Switching to ChipCommon core, index 0
ssb: Switching to PCI core, index 2
ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:06:02.0
bcm43xx-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found
ssb: Switching to IEEE 802.11 core, index 1
bcm43xx-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 3, Type 2, Revision 7
bcm43xx-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 8
bcm43xx-phy0 debug: Radio turned off
wmaster0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'
ifconfig reports the following:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:B2:AF:40
inet addr:192.168.1.102 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:a5ff:feb2:af40/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1684 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1648 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:702701 (686.2 KiB) TX bytes:395884 (386.6 KiB)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-14-A5-B2-AF-40-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
iwconfig reports the following:
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"NetGearAndrigAtHome"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point:
00:09:5B:B8:BD:75
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption
key:C61C-1152-BB6D-7512-45B7-F4FA-0165-E96D-8D7B-5920-B634-7DA7-B8EA-991C-14C2-193F
[2]
Link Quality=106/100 Signal level=-38 dBm Noise level=-73 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
iwlist wlan0 scanning reports:
Cell 02 - Address: 00:09:5B:B8:BD:75
ESSID:"NetGearAndrigAtHome"
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=37/100 Signal level=-46 dBm Noise level=-72
dBm
Encryption key:on
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=000000000084cc27
I left out my neighbors access point, but this shows mine, and I am
successfully connnecting with WPA Personal.
The performance is very poor, as it is only connecting at 1 Mb/s, and the
signal strength varies wildly between around 30% to 100% at times. Also,
NetworkManager reports that the driver is bcm43xx-pci, if you look at the
connection information. Not sure what that means, but lsmod reports the
following:
lsmod | grep bcm
bcm43xx_mac80211 417697 0
ssb 43461 1 bcm43xx_mac80211
mac80211 165705 2 rc80211_simple,bcm43xx_mac80211
So, in short the driver is working, but the bitrate is very low, and it
makes using it nearly impossible. If there is other information I can
provide that would be helpful in improving this, please let me know, and I
will carve out some time to collect it for you.
By the way, thanks for all the hard work on the driver. It is really
getting better, and if I can get the performance issue solved, I would be
using it instead of my additional PCMCIA card with the Atheros chip set.
Andy
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