On Wednesday 19 March 2008 05:37:18 kala mazoo wrote: > > 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 >
Ehm, what da hell is that? Are you probing b43 and bcm43xx at the same time? Disable bcm43xx, please. > 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 > -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
