Now that 2.6.17-rc5 is out I gave it a test run. Unfortunately the wireless driver bcm43xx does not work, it not been working with -rc3 either.
Using the patches (softmac and all this) against 2.6.15.4
I got it to work a few times, and now I hoped that the integration into
the kernel would have made stuff better, but it didn't.
Any hints appreciated.
Powerbook5,6
Debian Sarge with backported
ii wireless-tools 27+28pre13-1
Doing the ifconfig eth1 and then after a iwlist eth1 scanning
iwconfig eth1 essid conference channel 8 rate 11M
First it looks fine, but these are the sort of messages I get a lot:
May 27 12:59:02 localhost kernel: ieee80211: eth1: IEEE80211_ASSOC_REQ received
May 27 13:00:04 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response
received from 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX but no queue item exists.
(The XX actually having numbers from the right access point.)
But I cannot do dhclient eth1 or anything else to get the network working.
Other laptops (non-broadcom) around me can do it without problems.
Here is a full session:
86 ifconfig eth1 up
87 iwconfig eth1 essid conference channel 8 rate 11M
88 ifconfig
89 iwconfig
90 dhclient eth1
91 ifconfig eth1 down
eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"conference" Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.447 GHz Access Point: 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
I get this signal with iwconfig a few times as well, then it says:
eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"conference" Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.447 GHz Access Point: 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=2/3 Noise level=187/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
but this only slightly changes the messsge.
/var/log/syslog (some anonymisation done), without associations working.
May 27 14:14:37 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
May 27 14:14:37 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned on
May 27 14:14:37 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Chip initialized
May 27 14:14:37 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: DMA initialized
May 27 14:14:37 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: 80211 cores initialized
May 27 14:14:37 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Keys cleared
May 27 14:14:37 localhost kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
May 27 14:15:07 localhost kernel: printk: 9 messages suppressed.
May 27 14:15:07 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received
from 00:13:ce:9e:a2:f4 but no queue item exists.
May 27 14:15:10 localhost last message repeated 8 times
May 27 14:15:17 localhost kernel: printk: 12 messages suppressed.
May 27 14:15:17 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received
from 00:13:ce:9e:a2:f4 but no queue item exists.
May 27 14:15:20 localhost kernel: printk: 124 messages suppressed.
May 27 14:15:20 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received
from 00:13:ce:9e:a2:f4 but no queue item exists.
May 27 14:15:23 localhost dhclient: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client
2.0pl5
May 27 14:15:23 localhost dhclient: Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The
Internet Software Consortium.
May 27 14:15:23 localhost dhclient: All rights reserved.
May 27 14:15:23 localhost dhclient:
May 27 14:15:23 localhost dhclient: Please contribute if you find this
softwareuseful.
May 27 14:15:23 localhost dhclient: For info, please visit
http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
May 27 14:15:23 localhost dhclient:
May 27 14:15:23 localhost dhclient: sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
May 27 14:15:24 localhost dhclient: sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
May 27 14:15:24 localhost dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth1/00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
May 27 14:15:24 localhost dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth1/00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
May 27 14:15:24 localhost dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
May 27 14:15:24 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255
port 67 interval 4
May 27 14:15:27 localhost kernel: printk: 12 messages suppressed.
May 27 14:15:27 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received
from 00:13:ce:9e:a2:f4 but no queue item exists.
May 27 14:15:27 localhost kernel: ieee80211: eth1: IEEE80211_ASSOC_REQ received
May 27 14:15:27 localhost kernel: ieee80211: eth1: IEEE80211_ASSOC_REQ received
May 27 14:15:28 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255
port 67 interval 5
May 27 14:15:33 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255
port 67 interval 11
May 27 14:15:44 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255
port 67 interval 20
May 27 14:15:47 localhost kernel: printk: 1 messages suppressed.
May 27 14:15:47 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received
from 00:13:ce:9e:a2:f4 but no queue item exists.
May 27 14:15:47 localhost last message repeated 3 times
May 27 14:15:50 localhost kernel: printk: 3 messages suppressed.
May 27 14:15:50 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received
from 00:13:ce:9e:a2:f4 but no queue item exists.
May 27 14:15:50 localhost kernel: ieee80211: eth1: IEEE80211_ASSOC_REQ received
May 27 14:15:50 localhost last message repeated 4 times
May 27 14:15:56 localhost kernel: printk: 18 messages suppressed.
May 27 14:15:56 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received
from 00:13:ce:9e:a2:f4 but no queue item exists.
May 27 14:15:59 localhost kernel: printk: 6 messages suppressed.
May 27 14:15:59 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response received
from 00:13:ce:9e:a2:f4 but no queue item exists.
May 27 14:16:00 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off
May 27 14:16:00 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 1/64
May 27 14:16:00 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0260 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
May 27 14:16:00 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
May 27 14:16:00 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0220 (TX) max used slots:
13/512
May 27 14:16:00 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
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