I'm new to this list ~ greetings all round,
I've been
following the thread on the above card for a few days now -- as luck (or
misfortune) would have it, I bought a number of these cards a couple of weeks
ago....I live in Australia. WLAN is all a bit new to me, but I'm a quick study.
I'll no doubt get further when (and if) I can get these cards to play the linux
game....
For starters, the box is a P4 with a debian 3.0 rc1 instance thereto installed.
The cards are branded [see topic], but for the record the broadcom IC onboard
is marked 'BCM4318KFBG'
Initial plans entertained running the P4 as a WLAN AP, still the thin blue
wires run the hall...
The kernel shipped with the deb3 release [linux-2.6.18-4-686] will use the (now
deprecated) bcm43xx driver module, and it gives every impression via dmesg that
things are going to work (once I get the firmware loading sorted and configure
the stack itself)...;
bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2
bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found
bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x804, rev 0xc, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x80d, rev 0x7, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 3, Type 2, Revision 7
bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 8205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 8)
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
.....but, I dunno for sure...yet....'coz I didn't get there. Rather, I saw tthe
B43 website, the word 'deprecated', and concluded to download a fresh
linux-2.6.24 tarball, and have at it from there. Now...2.6.24 is much LESS
interested in this hardware, quote...;
b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found
b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 15, Type 15, Revision 255)
b43: probe of ssb0:0 failed with error -95
...and I went "hmmm, maybe I need an even more current kernel?"....or....is
this a problem...??...
..hence this email. Any answers, pointer, clues or comments welcome,
regards,
Donald
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