I don't know about Larry's card, but mine doesn't transmit at all, except
for maybe noise. When I tried to associate with my AP, while kismetting on
an RT73 USB card on the same channel placed 1M from my 4318's antenna, I
couldn't record any transmission. Trying the other way around (associating
through the RT73 and kismetting on the 4318) shown the association packets
in Kismet.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wednesday 16 April 2008 16:42:16 Larry Finger wrote:
> > Stefanik Gábor wrote:
> > > Looks like this is an Asus-specific issue. Can you try flashing the
> > > attached SPROM file (with a modified MAC address, of course) into your
> > > card to see if it results in *any* transmission? (Back up your SPROM
> > > first!) This is from a non-Asus 4318/02, extracted from a working
> card.
> > > (I can't test it myself now, as I don't have a usable Linux system
> ATM.)
> > >
> > > Also, what radio is WL-138G V2 using? Is it the same radio as other
> > > 4318/02 cards? Someone with a broken WL-138G V2 should check. (With a
> > > broken one, since you need to remove the radio's cover.)
> >
> > I agree that this is an ASUS-specific issue; however, as I have been
> > chastised about too much speculation over this problem,
>
> Oh, wasn't meant like this. :)
> I just wanted to say that you're most likely not going to find the bug
> this way. :)
>
> > I have to be
> > careful. My one question is as follows: If the problem were to be due
> > to the contents of the SPROM, or even the radio used by the chip, how
> > does bcm43xx manage to make it work when b43 cannot?
>
> Well, the SPROM code was completely rewritten and the radio code was
> partially rewritten. So there's enough room for bugs. :)
> There are several SPROM values that affect TX heavily.
>
> Do you have a WLAN spectrum analyzer btw? Can you test whether there
> actually
> is a signal produced by the card?
> I hope that my card will arrive soon, so I can test this as well...
>
> --
> Greetings Michael.
>



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