Hi,
Some updates.
with the help of following links,
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_BCM43xx
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=647273&highlight=b43
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=649038
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43?action=show&redirect=en%2Fusers%2FDrivers%2Fbcm43xx
I have successfully built and load b43 driver. Now I can see the "wlan0"
interface.
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flukebox home # lsmod |grep b43
b43 130276 0
input_polldev 5784 1 b43
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ouput of iwconfig is below.
flukebox home # iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"iitk"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point:
00:11:95:D8:E3:33
Tx-Power=off
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
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
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But still I am able to transmit any message. There is some error while
transmission.
flukebox home # dmesg|grep ERROR
[ 2420.327210] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 2420.327622] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 2420.327686] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 2420.527136] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 2420.527201] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 2420.721574] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 2420.721649] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 2425.936058] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 2425.936137] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 2426.001384] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 2429.932210] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 2433.852553] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 2433.910519] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 2437.927955] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 2441.883687] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 2445.890988] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
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but I am still getting WEXT errors.
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* Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ...
ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not
supported [ ok ]
th param 5 value 0x1 -
* Starting wpa_cli on wlan0
...
[ ok ]
* Backgrounding ...
Please help.
Thanks ,
flukebox
On Feb 12, 2008 10:38 PM, dell core2duo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I complied the kernel buitin broadcom drivers. So now, I have a
> interface named "wlan0_rename".
> But things are still not working for me.
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> flukebox flukebox # iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> sit0 no wireless extensions.
>
> ip6tnl0 no wireless extensions.
>
> eth1 no wireless extensions.
>
> wlan0_rename IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
> Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
> Tx-Power=0 dBm
> Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
> 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
>
> flukebox flukebox # /etc/init.d/net.wlan0_rename start
> * Starting wlan0_rename
> * /etc/conf.d/wireless is deprecated
> * Please put all settings in /etc/conf.d/net
> * /etc/conf.d/wireless is deprecated
> * Please put all settings in /etc/conf.d/net
> * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0_rename ...
> ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
> WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not
> supported [
> ok ]th param 5 value 0x1 -
> * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0_rename
> ...
> [ ok ]
> * Backgrounding ...
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I guess "param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
> " this has something to do with wpa_suplicant.
> can somebody help me out here ??
> Also, is there any way to change my interface name wlan0_rename to wlan0
> or eth1 ??
>
>
> TIA,
> flukebox
>
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> On Feb 10, 2008 3:17 AM, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100
> > Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > > BTW,
> > > > I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my
> > > > second priority.
> > >
> > > As I said before, I did not have any problem (unfortunately, I cannot
> > > access the hardware now and check the bandwidth issue).
> >
> > I have not yet gotten the new driver to work, though admittedly I
> > didn't have much time to try and so went for ndiswrapper pretty
> > quickly.
> >
> > has anyone had luck with this driver recently?
> > --
> > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
> >
> >
>
