Hi,
I have a HP Presario zv6015 laptop with Debian 4.0 installed (using
the official unstable repository). When running the kernel 2.6.23,
everything works fine, even the Broadcom 4306 wireless card (using
module bcm43xx shipped with the kernel and firmware ripped with
bcm43xx-fwcutter from official Debian unstable repository). But when I
boot with the new kernel 2.6.24, the wireless network stops working. I
tried everything found in
http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 and searched a lot
of solutions on the Internet, but had no success. Both modules b43 and
b43 legacy were tried. I think it is a firmware issue, since I had the
same problem with bcm43xx and it was solved when I changed the
firmware. I have the following firmware files (tried every version
listed below):
/lib/firmware/b43/*.fw - 4.x firmware extracted with b43-fwcutter
/lib/firmware/b43legacy/*.fw - 3.x firmware extracted with b43-fwcutter
/lib/firmware/*.fw - 3.x firmware extracted with bcm43xx-fwcutter
Any ideas? I don't have much free time available due to work and
college, but I have good C and C++ coding skills and am willing to
help.
Thanks,
Marcelo Juchem
Following is the output of some commands and content of some config
files to help the diagnostic.
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using debian linux with kernel linux-image-2.6.24-1-686
updated as of 01/31/2008 from the official debian unstable repository
firmware extracted to /lib/firmware/b43
broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0 - extracted with b43-fwcutter 009
broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5 - extracted with b43-fwcutter 010
firmware extracted from these files, found at
http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43:
broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta_mimo.o
broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o
broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o
b43-fwcutter version 009: obtained from the official debian unstable
repository as of 01/31/2008
b43-fwcutter version 010: compiled from sources found at
http://www.bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/
--- 'lspci' output - BEGIN ---
03:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
--- 'lspci' output - END ---
--- /etc/network/interfaces - BEGIN ---
# I changed the ESSID, nickname and password to placeholders
iface lo inet loopback
auto lo
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless-essid WiFiNetworkESSID
wireless-mode Managed
wireless-channel 6
wireless-nickname nickname
wireless-key open s:password
hostname nickname
auto eth1
--- /etc/network/interfaces - END ---
--- 'dmesg' output - BEGIN ---
b43-phy1: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found
phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'
udev: renamed network interface wmaster0 to eth1
--- 'dmesg' output - END ---
--- 'iwlist eth1 scan' output - BEGIN ---
eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning.
--- 'iwlist eth1 scan' output - END ---
--- 'ifup' output - BEGIN ---
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.0
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
eth1: unknown hardware address type 801
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported
eth1: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/eth1/
Sending on LPF/eth1/
Sending on Socket/fallback
receive_packet failed on eth1: Network is down
option_space_encapsulate: option space agent does not exist, but is configured.
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
send_packet: Network is down
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
--- 'ifup' output - END ---
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