Hi, I have a Broadcom 4311 card that ndiswrapper detects and scans but cannot associate with. The b43 driver that ships with 2.6.24 does not detect anything at all. However If I patch the kernel with this patch
http://linuxwireless.org/download/b43/patch_2.6.24_for_4311_2 the b43 driver appears to detect the card, find my access point and try to associate, but then suddenly the wireless LED starts blinking accompanied by some kernel messages from b43, continiously until I manage to reboot. Complete details lspci output (from a 2.6.24 kernel without the patch): 01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 02) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1375 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at 91300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME- Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information Capabilities: [e8] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint IRQ 0 Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag+ Device: Latency L0s <4us, L1 unlimited Device: AtnBtn- AtnInd- PwrInd- Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop- Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes Link: Supported Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s, Port 0 Link: Latency L0s <4us, L1 <64us Link: ASPM L1 Enabled RCB 64 bytes CommClk+ ExtSynch- Link: Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 1a-00-a9-ff-ff-73-be-09 Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting Kernel logs: (With comments and questions) kern.info: b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found kern.info: ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB] kern.info: input: PS/2 Mouse as /class/input/input6 kern.debug: phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple' kern.info: ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line) kern.info: input: Video Bus as /class/input/input7 kern.info: input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /class/input/input8 kern.info: ACPI: Video Device [OVGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) kern.info: iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH8M TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0460) kern.info: iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0) kern.warn: hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x011f000c kern.info: Adding 2097136k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2097136k kern.info: device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 kern.info: device-mapper: ioctl: 4.12.0-ioctl (2007-10-02) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kern.notice: ReiserFS: sda3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal kern.notice: ReiserFS: sda3: using ordered data mode kern.notice: ReiserFS: sda3: journal params: device sda3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 kern.notice: ReiserFS: sda3: checking transaction log (sda3) kern.notice: ReiserFS: sda3: Using r5 hash to sort names kern.info: eth0: link down kern.info: input: b43-phy0 as /class/input/input9 kern.info: NET: Registered protocol family 10 kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:tx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:rx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:radio kern.err: b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error kern.info: lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions kern.info: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready kern.info: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready kern.info: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team kern.warn: nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max) kern.debug: wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 kern.debug: wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0c:41:0c:2a:d7 kern.debug: wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0c:41:0c:2a:d7 kern.debug: wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0c:41:0c:2a:d7 kern.debug: wlan0: authentication with AP 00:0c:41:0c:2a:d7 timed out kern.debug: wlan0: authentication frame received from 00:0c:41:0c:2a:d7, but not in authenticate state - ignored # Here it tries to authenticate against my AP, but it times out - how do we # increase the timeout? kern.info: b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED kern.info: b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to ENABLED # These two are me pressing my wireless button on the laptop # Here onwards the wireless light starts blinking.. until I panic and reboot kern.err: b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000800, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000 kern.info: b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error) ... kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:tx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:rx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:radio kern.err: b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000400, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000 kern.info: b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error) ... kern.info: b43-phy0: Controller restarted kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:tx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:rx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:radio kern.info: b43-phy0: <3>b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000400, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000 kern.info: b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error) ... kern.warn: Controller restarted kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:tx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:rx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:radio kern.info: b43-phy0: <3>b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000400, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000 kern.warn: Controller restarted kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:tx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:rx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:radio kern.warn: printk: 1 messages suppressed. kern.info: b43-phy0: Controller restarted kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:tx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:rx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:radio kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:tx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:rx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:radio kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:tx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:rx kern.info: Registered led device: b43-phy0:radio kern.warn: printk: 8 messages suppressed. ... and so on. Thanks for the help... -Abhijit _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
