2009/8/14 Mark Huijgen <[email protected]>:
> Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>> Rev0/1/B2062 will now hopefully show some signs of life, though
>> it won't work at full performance, as calibration is still missing.
>>
>
> Just compiled wireless-testing.git**, enabled LP phy support in config,
> to see how far it gets here:

Wireless-testing doesn't have all the needed patches yet - apply the
outstanding patches from the list to test the real current state.

>
> modprobe b43 verbose=3
>
> [ 1068.690053] b43-phy3: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15)
> [ 1068.732048] b43-phy3 debug: Found PHY: Analog 6, Type 5, Revision 1
> [ 1068.732062] b43-phy3 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2062,
> Revision 2
> [ 1068.756465] phy3: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
> [ 1068.756581] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PL, Firmware-ID:
> FW13 ]
>
>
> ifconfig wlan0
> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
>          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> ifconfig wlan0 up
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address

Uhh, that doesn't look good...

>
> Did some looking around and it seems b43_op_start() is never called, so
> its bailing out somewhere in mac80211? Something to do with the mac addr
> being alls FF's?

Yes, FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF is not a valid MAC. Mac80211 refuses to
initialize a card with an invalid MAC address.
Now, the question is, how does the MAC address end up being
FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF...? Presumably there is a switch(phy->type) in the
generic (non-LP-specific) code that doesn't have case B43_PHYTYPE_LP
and returns FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF as the default. I'll investigate.

BTW could you post the output of "iwconfig wlan0", "iw dev wlan0 info"
and "iw phy phy3 info" (replace phy3 with the phy name from dmesg)?

>
> Mark
>
>
> * Card pci id:
> 10:00.0 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01)
>        Subsystem: 103c:137d
>
> ** git version:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;a=commit;h=b2004c4a9483b295a7413d41d08604943670ab26
>



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