By downgrading to the broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2, the wireless card works correctly.
Has this bug been reported and rectified? Are we waiting for a new firmware release from Broadcom? On Saturday 09 May 2009 13:29:52 you wrote: > Hello, > > * Problem > > I've recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty and my Broadcom 4318 wireless > card connects, but keeps disconnecting. The problem seems to have been > discussed at length but I can't solve the problem. The error in dmesg is > as follows: > > [ 837.189972] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error > > * Various debug information > > uname -a > Linux yoghurt 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 > i686 GNU/Linux > > lspci -v|grep Broa > 06:05.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] > 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) > > lspci -vvn (relevant output) > 06:05.0 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02) > Subsystem: 1468:0311 > Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- > Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > Latency: 64 > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21 > Region 0: Memory at c0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] > Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge > Kernel modules: ssb > > dmesg > > [ 831.343816] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 > 15:32:10) > [ 831.386570] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx > [ 831.386612] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx > [ 831.386654] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio > [ 831.485078] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready > [ 831.487397] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1f:1f:34:81:e0 try 1 > [ 831.491493] wlan0 direct probe responded > [ 831.491505] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1f:1f:34:81:e0 > [ 831.493194] wlan0: authenticated > [ 831.493204] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1f:1f:34:81:e0 > [ 831.497365] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1f:1f:34:81:e0 (capab=0x411 > status=0 aid=3) > [ 831.497373] wlan0: associated > [ 831.498214] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready > [ 837.189972] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error > > * What I've done > > I read this post: > http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2008-October/008294.html > > I therefore decided to try and upgrade the firmware. The link mentioned in > the post: > ftp://ftp.linksys.com/opensourcecode/wrt610n/1.00.00.018/wrt610n_v1.00.00.0 >18_us.tgz > > no longer works, so I looked around for more upto date firmware by Googling > for the existing file that my install script downloads: wget > http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2 > > I found this list of sources: http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/ > > I've tried downloading the broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2 and > broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.2.tar.bz2 and broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.1.tar.bz2, but > when I run fwcutter, I see this: > > b43-fwcutter --unsupported -w /lib/firmware/ > broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/wl.o Sorry, the input file is either wrong or > not supported by b43-fwcutter. This file has an unknown MD5sum > 2dd738b8feb8b3559fd9d8fbaf3bfffc. > > b43-fwcutter --unsupported -w /lib/firmware/ > broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.2/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o > Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by b43-fwcutter. > This file has an unknown MD5sum b6d32979ad3fdd8ce5c3ec806ebec757. > > If it helps: > > b43-fwcutter -v > b43-fwcutter version 011 > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > Thanks, > > > John John Baker, Java System Solutions. http://www.javasystemsolutions.com _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
