Ehud Gavron wrote:
> ifconfig eth1 up
>
> E
>
No, I did that. It didn't complain, but it didn't do anything either
$ ifconfig eth1 up
$ ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:7E:41:C1:B4
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:611 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:25662 (25.0 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000
$ iwlist eth1 scan
Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
Some things may be broken...
eth1 No scan results
> Andrew McGuinness wrote:
>> I'm not able to detect my AP with a Dell 1390 mini-pci using bcm43xx
>>
>> I appreciate that the driver is under very heavy development at the
>> moment, and I'm willing to try the bcm43 if that will help.
>>
>> Details follow:
>>
>>
>> The Acer Aspire 3680 contains the following (lspci -v)
>>
>> 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN
>> Mini-PCI Card (rev 01)
>> Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0422
>> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
>> Memory at 34100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>> Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
>> Queue=0/0
>> Enable-
>> Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
>> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
>> Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
>>
>> and from lspci -n
>>
>> 03:00.0 0280: 14e4:4311 (rev 01)
>>
>>
>> I built a 2.6.21 kernel from debian, with the combined_2.6.21.patch from
>> lwfinger.dynalias.org
>>
>> I got the v3 firmware wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o and used fwcutter to create
>> the .fw files in /lib/firmware
>>
>> $ dmesg | grep bcm
>>
>> bcm43xx driver
>> 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 disabled by hardware
>> bcm43xx: Chip initialized
>> bcm43xx: 32-bit DMA initialized
>> bcm43xx: Keys cleared
>> bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
>> bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0
>>
>> $ iwconfig eth1 essid arobeia
>>
>> $ iwconfig eth1
>>
>> Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22
>> of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
>> Some things may be broken...
>>
>> eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"arobeia" Nickname:"Broadcom 4311"
>> Mode:Managed Frequency=2.472 GHz Access Point: Invalid
>> Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm
>> RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
>> Encryption key:off
>> Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-256 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
>> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
>> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>>
>>
>>
>> $ iwlist eth1 scan
>>
>> eth1 no scan results
>>
>> The "radio disabled by hardware" looks like a problem to me ?
>>
>>
>>
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