Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-18 Thread Larry Finger
Johan Ehnberg wrote: Hi, I have more to report today. I was able to connect to the network now, but the connection is sluggish at least with WPA, and eventually disconnects. I am getting a lot of the following messages: [ 477.704000] printk: 2 messages suppressed. [ 484.516000]

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-18 Thread Larry Finger
Johan Ehnberg wrote: The sluggishness disappeared with rate 11M. It was at 24M like you assumed. But the connection is still lost after a few minutes. It then takes a minute before it automatically (most of the time) reconnects. As I see it, there are two shortcomings of the driver at

Re: Status of WPA support

2007-04-18 Thread Larry Finger
Rodrigo Luiz wrote: Hi. Which the status of the support to the WPA in wireless-dev tree using bcm43xx? Which the known issues? Only signal strength. If you have enough signal, bcm43xx-mac80211 authenticates with WPA-PSK TKIP. Although I haven't test it, WPA2 should also work. Larry

[PATCH 1/3] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix machine check on PPC for phy-rev == 1

2007-04-19 Thread Larry Finger
Patch 1/3: Fix some typos and a logic error involving phy-gmode that caused machine checks on PPC architecture with phy-rev == 1 chips. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- John, This patch is for the wireless-dev tree. A separate one will be prepared for the mb tree. Larry

[PATCH 2/3] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix machine check on PPC for phy-rev == 1

2007-04-19 Thread Larry Finger
Patch 2/3: There are recent changes to the specs that eliminate a number of machine check errors on PPC architecture when used with phy-rev == 1 chips. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- John, This patch is for the wireless-dev tree. A separate one will be prepared for the mb

[PATCH 2/3] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix machine check on PPC for phy-rev == 1

2007-04-19 Thread Larry Finger
necessary for bcm43xx-softmac as well. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- John, This patch is for the wireless-dev tree. A separate one will be prepared for the mb tree. Larry Index: wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_phy.c

Re: [PATCH 2/3] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix machine check on PPC for phy-rev == 1

2007-04-19 Thread Larry Finger
Stefano Brivio wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:47:06 -0500 Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @@ -599,16 +599,16 @@ static void bcm43xx_phy_agcsetup(struct Just FYI, I'm going to whack this whole function soon, when the R.E. team is done with A PHY LO specifications and I release

Re: [PATCH 0/4] mac80211 and drivers: Improve wireless statistics

2007-04-19 Thread Larry Finger
Jiri Benc wrote: The whole signal reporting in WE looks like a mess to me. It seems that no renaming could help here, I'm afraid - the names you consider better others consider worse. Let's leave it as is, and return to it when converting mac80211 to use cfg80211. With a bit of luck it

[PATCH] mac80211: Sort supported rates in scan output

2007-04-19 Thread Larry Finger
In mac80211, the results of a scan show basic rates followed by extended rates, thus values are not listed in any particular order. This patch sorts all rates in increasing value. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Index: wireless-dev/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c

[PATCH] ieee80211: Output frequency rather than channel in scan results

2007-04-20 Thread Larry Finger
In ieee80211, the output of scan results lists channels rather than frequencies; however, NetworkManager needs frequency. This patch changes the output from channel to frequency. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Index: wireless-2.6/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.c

[PATCH V2] ieee80211: Output frequency rather than channel in scan results

2007-04-20 Thread Larry Finger
In ieee80211, the output of scan results lists channels rather than frequencies; however, NetworkManager needs frequency. This patch adds the frequency to the output. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Index: wireless-2.6/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.c

Re: [PATCH V2] ieee80211: Output frequency rather than channel in scan results

2007-04-21 Thread Larry Finger
Johannes Berg wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 15:42 +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:25:40PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: + if (network-channel 15) + iwe.u.freq.m = 2407 + 5 * network-channel; + else + iwe.u.freq.m = 5000 + 5 * network-channel

Re: [PATCH] ieee80211: Output frequency rather than channel in scan results

2007-04-21 Thread Larry Finger
Dan Williams wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 00:12 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: Quoting Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In ieee80211, the output of scan results lists channels rather than frequencies; however, NetworkManager needs frequency. This patch changes the output from channel to frequency

Re: [PATCH] ieee80211: Output frequency rather than channel in scan results

2007-04-22 Thread Larry Finger
Dan Williams wrote: Haha. Ok. NM should be smarter about this and convert channels returned by the driver into frequencies. In the end, I prefer frequencies where at all possible, because channel numbers are _not_ unique (unless you use the the tuple of [standard, band, channel] where

Error in setting lo-tx_bias

2007-04-23 Thread Larry Finger
Michael, In your new txpower routines, I didn't see any changes to routine 'lo_measure_txctl_values', which is where the failure to initialize tx_bias occurs. The patch below sets it correctly. Larry Index: wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_lo.c

Re: BCM4320

2007-04-24 Thread Larry Finger
Otto Solares wrote: Hi! I have seen lot of progress in the bcm43xx driver so I searched for the BCM4320 support but can't find anything on the homepage nor this list's archive. Would like to know what is the status for this chipset? or is this chipset too different to be supported by

Re: BCM4320

2007-04-24 Thread Larry Finger
Otto Solares wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:47:23PM -0400, Joseph Jezak wrote: Otto Solares wrote: Hi! I have seen lot of progress in the bcm43xx driver so I searched for the BCM4320 support but can't find anything on the homepage nor this list's archive. Would like to know what is the

Re: BCM4320

2007-04-24 Thread Larry Finger
Otto Solares wrote: Broadcom BCM4320 802.11 Wireless Controller Well, I installed pciutils in the WRT and found this: 0:05.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 2 Memory at

Re: BCM4320

2007-04-24 Thread Larry Finger
Joseph Jezak wrote: Otto Solares wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 09:46:35PM -0600, Otto Solares wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:47:23PM -0400, Joseph Jezak wrote: Otto Solares wrote: Hi! I have seen lot of progress in the bcm43xx driver so I searched for the BCM4320 support but can't find

Re: idle-tssi... source of problems

2007-04-25 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: Ok, Larry. I don't really get where the bug is. I think the tx_magn and tx_bias stuff you discovered (writing 0x20 to radio 0x52) is not really the cause of the problem either. I think it just papers over the real problem somewhere else. Why do I say that? Well, if I

A milestone for bcm43xx and a problem

2007-04-26 Thread Larry Finger
The SoftMAC version of bcm43xx has reached a new level with the release of kernel 2.6.21. For the first time, the bcm43xx code in a kernel release works without patching and transmits and receives at speeds faster than most Internet connections. As usual, there are enhancements in the

Re: bcm32xx-mac80211: Help with initial connections

2007-04-27 Thread Larry Finger
Andrew J. Barr wrote: I am having quite a lot of trouble with my Apple Airport Extreme card (BCM4306). I hear that it's well-supported, but I still have power issues, although my house is rather large and that probably exacerbates the problem. There are at least two versions of the BCM4306.

Re: A milestone for bcm43xx and a problem

2007-05-01 Thread Larry Finger
Christian Hoffmann wrote: Hi, applying combined-patches against 2.6.21 gives me following problems on gentoo: CC [M] net/sctp/sysctl.o CC [M] net/sctp/ipv6.o LD [M] net/sctp/sctp.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 281 modules WARNING: ieee80211_debug_level

[PATCH] mac80211: Add support for SIOCGIWRATE ioctl to provide rate information

2007-05-02 Thread Larry Finger
At present, transmission rate information for mac80211 is available only if verbose debugging is turned on, and then only in the logs. This patch implements the SIOCGIWRATE ioctl, which adds the current transmission rate to the output of iwconfig. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PATCH V2] mac80211: Add support for SIOCGIWRATE ioctl to provide rate information

2007-05-02 Thread Larry Finger
At present, transmission rate information for mac80211 is available only if verbose debugging is turned on, and then only in the logs. This patch implements the SIOCGIWRATE ioctl, which adds the current transmission rate to the output of iwconfig. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix for missing global (tcf_destroy_chain) in build

2007-05-02 Thread Larry Finger
Patrick McHardy wrote: That pretty much defeats the reason why CONFIG_NET_SCH_FIFO was created. So far without CONFIG_NET_SCHED the wme scheduler didn't even register, so it seems the proper fix is to get rid of all #ifdef CONFIG_NET_SCHED and simply avoid building it. At least this fix

Curious behavior with bcm43xx-mac80211

2007-05-03 Thread Larry Finger
I am seeing unusual behavior with bcm43xx-mac80211. When I first load the module and make a connection, iwconfig reports a Signal level of -33 dBm, a Link quality' of 115/100, and a Bit rate of 11 Mbs. Within 10-15 seconds, the Signal level has gone down to -48 dBm, the Link quality is at

[PATCH] bcm43xx: Remove dead configuration variable CONFIG_947XX

2007-05-03 Thread Larry Finger
The CONFIG_BCM947XX configuration variable was designed for use by the embedded device used by the OpenWRT project. The device has been shifted to the ssb driver in bcm43xx-mac80211 and will not be used with SoftMAC. Accordingly, this dead configuration variable is removed. Signed-off-by: Larry

[PATCH V3] mac80211: Add support for SIOCGIWRATE ioctl to provide rate information

2007-05-03 Thread Larry Finger
At present, transmission rate information for mac80211 is available only if verbose debugging is turned on, and then only in the logs. This patch implements the SIOCGIWRATE ioctl, which adds the current transmission rate to the output of iwconfig. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: bcm43xx with 2.6.21 vanilla and larry's combined patch loops; with the bcm-softmac-sa fails to associate [4311]

2007-05-04 Thread Larry Finger
Ehud Gavron wrote: Ok, so I was bored... and installed the 2.6.21 kernel. I then patch -p1 combined_2.6.21.patch make make modules_install make install sync reboot -f The bcm43xx modules reports associated... scanning... associated... with another message in the middle, about once

Re: bcm43xx with 2.6.21 vanilla and larry's combined patch loops; with the bcm-softmac-sa fails to associate [4311]

2007-05-04 Thread Larry Finger
Ehud Gavron wrote: Just to be precise, I repeated everything. Here it is in gory detail, except that I don't know how to capture the panic attack info because the system is stuck and I think a camera screenshot would be lame ;) Do you have the option of using netconsole to capture the

Re: bcm43xx with 2.6.21 vanilla and larry's combined patch loops; with the bcm-softmac-sa fails to associate [4311]

2007-05-05 Thread Larry Finger
Ehud Gavron wrote: Do you mean: 1. Reboot in 2.6.21... 2. Associate or not, do whatever you normally do, wait till it either WON'T WORK or CRASHES 3. Reboot in FC6 (2.6.20-1.2948.fc6) 4. Send log file lines starting with bcm.. Reboot in 2.6.21 and let it run until if loses

Re: Is mac80211 generally available for use with bcm43xx?

2007-05-05 Thread Larry Finger
Oscar A. Valdez wrote: Hmmm... I have a Dell laptop with a Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini Card 54Mbps. The most I get from it is 11Mbps with softmac and the 3.50.21.0 wl.o firmware. Can anyone suggest ways I can improve my speed? What kernel are you using, and what patch level? If you

Re: bcm43xx with 2.6.21 vanilla and larry's combined patch loops - SOLVED

2007-05-05 Thread Larry Finger
Denis V Seleznyov wrote: On Sunday, 06 May 2007 04:11:49 Denis V Seleznyov wrote: Ehud Gavron wrote: The bcm43xx modules reports associated... scanning... associated... with another message in the middle, about once every half second without stopping. The dmesg shows radio on, link not

Re: bcm43xx with 2.6.21 vanilla and larry's combined patch loops - SOLVED

2007-05-06 Thread Larry Finger
Jörg Sommer wrote: Hallo Larry, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Denis V Seleznyov wrote: On Sunday, 06 May 2007 04:11:49 Denis V Seleznyov wrote: Ehud Gavron wrote: The bcm43xx modules reports associated... scanning... associated... with another message in the middle, about once

Re: How to prevent bcm43xx from switching bit rate

2007-05-08 Thread Larry Finger
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi, Is there any way to force bcm43xx to use specific bit rate (eg. 11 M)? On my box it tends to automatically switch to 24 M, even if I do # iwconfig eth1 rate 11M fixed If you use git, reverting commit bb52a653eaef4aee877b2fa36de8699926f788bd will make your

Re: How to prevent bcm43xx from switching bit rate

2007-05-09 Thread Larry Finger
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Wednesday, 9 May 2007 07:35, Larry Finger wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi, Is there any way to force bcm43xx to use specific bit rate (eg. 11 M)? On my box it tends to automatically switch to 24 M, even if I do # iwconfig eth1 rate 11M fixed If you use git

Re: Problem with connecting in some place

2007-05-09 Thread Larry Finger
Rafał Miłecki wrote: Linux acer 2.6.21-104-default #1 SMP Mon May 7 15:08:57 UTC 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux 06:05.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Aspire 3022WLMi,

Re: [PATCH V3] mac80211: Add support for SIOCGIWRATE ioctl to provide rate information

2007-05-10 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Wu wrote: On Thursday 03 May 2007 21:21, Larry Finger wrote: +static int ieee80211_ioctl_giwrate(struct net_device *dev, + struct iw_request_info *info, + struct iw_param *rate, char *extra) +{ +struct ieee80211_local

Re: [PATCH 1/3] fix A/G PHYs setup and init

2007-05-15 Thread Larry Finger
saleh saeed wrote: I am new in linux I have hp pavilion dv6248eu with AMD turion 64 x2 and Broadcom 4312 wireless card. how can I use this patch to make my wireless card working This patch is not the best way for you to go. You should download v2.6.22-rc1 kernel source, build it for your

Re: SNR, Power output

2007-05-16 Thread Larry Finger
tICT wrote: Hi, I'm a Dell Wireless 1390 user (chipset 4311) and I notice a very low output power compared to wrapped drivers. Link is unstable if I'm not near the AP and, as I can read on my router status page, SNR is between 15-20dB (low). # iwconfig writes Tx-Power=18 dBm.

[PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix for tx_bias equal to 0xFF

2007-05-26 Thread Larry Finger
Index: wireless-mb/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_phy.c === --- wireless-mb.orig/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_phy.c +++ wireless-mb/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_phy.c @@ -4122,6

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix for tx_bias equal to 0xFF

2007-05-26 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: Ok, on which specification bits is this actually based? :) txpower_bg still needs a rewrite, and I have a patch for that in the pipeline, but it's still buggy due to missing specs stuff. It is not in the V4 specifications that I have found, but the V3 (softmac)

Re: switching to wireless-dev

2007-05-26 Thread Larry Finger
Fernando Toledo wrote: hi all i test my bcm4311 from my HP nx7400 with the wireless-dev git tree (mac80211) and want to report some things: i found that the speed is very similar to the old softmac driver (Good!) networkmanager just connect on firstime (Good!) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix for tx_bias equal to 0xFF

2007-05-26 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: On Saturday 26 May 2007 19:55:30 Larry Finger wrote: Michael Buesch wrote: Ok, on which specification bits is this actually based? :) txpower_bg still needs a rewrite, and I have a patch for that in the pipeline, but it's still buggy due to missing specs stuff

[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix deviation from specifications in set_baseband_attenuation

2007-05-26 Thread Larry Finger
A disagreement between the specifications and the bcm43xx code has just been discovered and is hereby fixed. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- John, This patch should be applied to wireless-2.6. Although it is a bug fix, it doesn't seem to have much effect on performance

Re: switching to wireless-dev

2007-05-27 Thread Larry Finger
Fernando Toledo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ iperf -c 192.168.10.20 -p 5000 Client connecting to 192.168.10.20, TCP port 5000 TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default) [ 3]

Re: switching to wireless-dev

2007-05-27 Thread Larry Finger
Fernando Toledo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ iperf -c 192.168.10.20 -p 5000 -r Server listening on TCP port 5000 TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)

Re: Problem with connecting in some place

2007-05-30 Thread Larry Finger
Rafał Miłecki wrote: 2007/5/9, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are some problems with bcm43xx in a crowded environment; however, I think your problems are with signal strength. The iwconfig log shows only very low signal levels. I see that you are using 2.6.21. Have you patched

Re: bcm4306 mini pci trouble

2007-05-30 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:07:29 Markus Rothe wrote: Hello, I'm trying to use bcm43xx_mac80211 module from wireless-dev git (checked out today). Unfortunately I've some problems. The device is not recognized. I cannot ifconfig ethx up for example. From dmesg: [...]

Re: Compaq Presario F557US

2007-05-31 Thread Larry Finger
john wrote: Success! Using linux 2.6.21 and your patch, I'm sending this email from the laptop over the wireless link. Many thanks for all the help and suggestions, Congratulations. The fixes added between 2.6.21 and 2.6.22 are quite important. Larry

Curious result for bcm43xx-mac80211

2007-05-31 Thread Larry Finger
When debugging the SIOCSIWRATE routine, I have issued numerous 'iwconfig' commands to see if my code is working correctly. When doing so, I noticed that the signal level is usually at -48 dBm, but that it would jump up to much higher values on occasion. In the automatic speed mode, these

Re: bcm4306 mini pci trouble

2007-06-01 Thread Larry Finger
Bin Zhang wrote: On 5/31/07, Bin Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 4306 card: 0001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) bcm43xx_mac80211 stops working with wireless-dev git 29 May 2007. bcm43xx works. With today's

mac80211 initial rate: a question

2007-06-01 Thread Larry Finger
In routine rate_control_simple_rate_init in net/mac80211/rc80211_simple.c, there is a comment that says /* TODO: what is a good starting rate for STA? About middle? Maybe not * the lowest or the highest rate.. Could consider using RSSI from * previous packets? Need

Re: Upgrade to f7 breaks bcm43xx module

2007-06-01 Thread Larry Finger
John H. wrote: bcm43xx mac80211: YOUR FIRMWARE IS TOO OLD. Firmware from binary drivers older than version 4.x is unsupported. You must upgrade your firmware files. I get that now with f7 and 2.6.21 and didn't with fc6 2.6.20. However, I read that the error is not what it sounds like.

Re: Upgrade to f7 breaks bcm43xx module

2007-06-01 Thread Larry Finger
John H. wrote: Thanks for the prompt response. I have a dell e1505. Do I need an updated fwcutter as well? What is the actual driver I need? The device is broadcom 1390? I missed one keyword in my message - you need a V4 Windows or OS X driver. I use wl_apsta.o, but that driver occurs

Re: Upgrade to f7 breaks bcm43xx module

2007-06-01 Thread Larry Finger
John H. wrote: Sorry, I got it all fixed. The XP installation on my system had the file. There is a warning that says Warning! Idle-TSSI Disabling TX power adjustment. But I assume it's nothing? Hopefully this doesn't have the speed problems that required a patch before. It is not

Re: Upgrade to f7 breaks bcm43xx module

2007-06-01 Thread Larry Finger
Gene Heskett wrote: I too would be interested in seeing this updated because I'm ATM making backups of the goodies on an FC5 lappy, HP-dv5120us, preparatory to rebooting from the F7 dvd. The radio in that lappy is a bcm-4318. Under FC5, its operation was at best, sporadic and I usually

[PATCH V2] bcm43xx-mac80211: Make wireless statistics yield reasonable values

2007-06-01 Thread Larry Finger
The changes contained herein are needed to get reasonable numbers for wireless statistics in bcm43xx-mac80211. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- bcm43xx_main.c |4 ++-- bcm43xx_xmit.c |4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Index: wireless-mb/drivers

Re: bcm4318 in an HP dv5120us lappy

2007-06-02 Thread Larry Finger
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 02 June 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Fresh F7 install on that lappy. Kernel is 2.6.21.1, i686 version, on a powernow-k8 64 bitter. Whats the procedure to get this working? Addendum: Installing bcm43xx-fwcutter, following the instructions on

Re: bcm4318 in an HP dv5120us lappy

2007-06-02 Thread Larry Finger
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 02 June 2007, Larry Finger wrote: wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:ICECAP4NIGHTCAP Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: 00:12:0E:12:68:D5 Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:off

Re: debug option

2007-06-02 Thread Larry Finger
Ioannis Nousias wrote: hello, does the driver have a 'run-time' option/parameter to enable printing of debug information or at least be more verbose ? basically I can't get it to work and it doesn't report any warning/error messages. The only information I have is the following: The

Re: bcm4318 in an HP dv5120us lappy

2007-06-03 Thread Larry Finger
John W. Linville wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 01:39:25PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: I can only guess at why FC 7 uses the mac80211 driver. To wean people off of softmac's teat... That was my guess... Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list

Re: firmware loading problems

2007-06-05 Thread Larry Finger
Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: Hi, Using kernel 2.6.21.2 on a debian unstable system I have this error when ifup wlan0: Jun 3 09:21:13 styx kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected Jun 3 09:21:13 styx kernel: firmware_loading_store: unexpected value (0) Jun 3 09:21:13 styx

Re: bcm4311 very unstable in kernel 2.6.21.4

2007-06-10 Thread Larry Finger
Brennan Ashton wrote: My bcm4311 has become very unsable in the new 2.6.21.4 http://2.6.21.4 kernel. It frequently has core crashes, and recently when i modprobed, caused the system to crash. bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (!err) at: drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c

Re: bcm4311 very unstable in kernel 2.6.21.4

2007-06-11 Thread Larry Finger
Brennan Ashton wrote: 2.6.22-rc4 fixed it Good. I was pretty sure it wouls. Your wireless hardware is just like mine, which works very well. with bcm43xx-softmac. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de

Re: TX power stuff confusion

2007-06-11 Thread Larry Finger
Brennan Ashton wrote: I have the same card (on fedora), it is working great now that i used the new kernel and firmware code. kernel 2.6.22-rc4, dont use the 2.6.21.4 http://2.6.21.4 kernel. When you update, make shure you go in menuconfig and select to install as a module, it's placement

Re: TX power stuff confusion

2007-06-11 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: On Monday 11 June 2007 07:59:06 Pavel Roskin wrote: I saw some stack traces and messages That's what this mail was about, in the first place. ;) Besides the messages about invalid LO control pairs and invalid bband_att values, my BCM4311 also got a kernel general

Re: Firmware loading problem

2007-06-20 Thread Larry Finger
Jan Kohnert wrote: Hello Folks, First of all, sorry to bother you with that users-question, but the forum is down for at least one week now... I have a problem with my bcm4311 card. As far as I read, it is now (2.6.21) fully compatible with the driver you write. Yes, that is true.

Re: Firmware loading problem

2007-06-20 Thread Larry Finger
Jan Kohnert wrote: Thanks for the quick response! Here is the output, but however, I cannot see, anything would be loaded... kohni-mobil ~ # dmesg | grep bcm43xx bcm43xx driver bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4311, rev 0x1 bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4 bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x11, vendor 0x4243

Re: BCM4309 with bcm43xx-mac80211 and WPA

2007-06-20 Thread Larry Finger
Ioannis Nousias wrote: hi, does bcm43xx-mac80211 support WPA for the BCM4309 chipset ? It seems that the driver detects and initialised the card, but I can't connect to my router. I'm using NetworkManager and it does see my router, but doesn't connect to it. Not to mention that after a

Re: BCM4309 with bcm43xx-mac80211 and WPA

2007-06-20 Thread Larry Finger
Ioannis Nousias wrote: in the bcm43xx case, NetworkManager doesn't detect a wireless card at all. Its menu shows only 'Wired Network'. As I said, the card doesn't seem to be recognised. What is the result of the command 'dmesg | grep bcm43xx'? I was thinking to compile the latest

Re: BCM4309 with bcm43xx-mac80211 and WPA

2007-06-21 Thread Larry Finger
Ioannis Nousias wrote: iwconfig: eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:My ESSID here Nickname:Broadcom 4306 Mode:Managed Frequency=2.432 GHz Access Point: my router's MAC here Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=14 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Your interface has not

Re: [bcm43xx-users] 4311 still not receiving

2007-06-21 Thread Larry Finger
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: Hi. I worked through some things with Ehud, but it was inconclusive. I just recompiled using the advice at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-547687.html as far as kernel options, and I did this with the 2.6.22-rc4 patched kernel, and uname -r indeed tells me

Re: BCM4309 with bcm43xx-mac80211 and WPA

2007-06-22 Thread Larry Finger
Ioannis Nousias wrote: PS: I can see wpa_supplicants being invoked by NM, so that part should be ok. root 5202 0.0 0.1 4948 1388 ?S08:46 0:00 /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -g /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global The next step is to see what wpa_supplicant has to say.

Re: [bcm43xx-users] 4311 still not receiving

2007-06-22 Thread Larry Finger
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: 64studio:/home/chuckk# ifconfig eth1 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:D0:1C:7A inet6 addr: fe80::214:a5ff:fed0:1c7a/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:3762

Status for bcm43xx-mac80211 on BCM4311

2007-06-22 Thread Larry Finger
Michael, I have now gotten some fairly reproducible iperf results with the latest version from your tree using my BCM4311. In general, the transmission rate is higher than the receive rate. In addition, it is much more consistent. While receiving, I might get a rate of 2 Mbs, but the next

[PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix deviations from OFDM table specs

2007-06-22 Thread Larry Finger
This patch fixes some differences between the specs in http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/802.11/PHY/G/workarounds/WRSSI_offset and the bcm43xx-mac80211 code. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Index: wireless-mb/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_phy.c

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix deviations from OFDM table specs

2007-06-22 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 21:43:43 Larry Finger wrote: This patch fixes some differences between the specs in http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/802.11/PHY/G/workarounds/WRSSI_offset and the bcm43xx-mac80211 code. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Index

Re: [bcm43xx-users] 4311 still not receiving

2007-06-22 Thread Larry Finger
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: On 6/22/07, *Larry Finger* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuckk Hubbard wrote: 64studio:/home/chuckk# ifconfig eth1 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:D0:1C:7A inet6 addr: fe80::214:a5ff:fed0:1c7a/64

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix deviations from OFDM table specs

2007-06-24 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: I applied this, but please still test it on your rev1 4306. I will try; however, nothing works here at OFDM rates. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de

Re: Broadcom 4318 with newer bcm43xxfirmware doesn't works

2007-06-28 Thread Larry Finger
Florian Erfurth wrote: Hi, I'm using notebook Acer Aspire 5022 with builtin WLAN Broadcom 4318. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspci -v [snip] 06:05.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem

Re: Broadcom 4318 with newer bcm43xxfirmware doesn't works

2007-06-28 Thread Larry Finger
Florian Erfurth wrote: Original-Nachricht Datum: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:42:14 -0500 Von: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Florian Erfurth [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de Betreff: Re: Broadcom 4318 with newer bcm43xxfirmware doesn\'t works Florian

Re: Broadcom 4318 with newer bcm43xxfirmware doesn't works

2007-06-28 Thread Larry Finger
Florian Erfurth wrote: Hi Larry, thank you very much! Von: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Florian Erfurth wrote: Von: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those values are completely bogus. In the official bcm43xx-mac80211 trees, the code gives more realistic values, but those patches

Re: bcm43xx ubuntu 704 acer 5020

2007-07-01 Thread Larry Finger
steve menard wrote: Wanted to say thanks all for writing bcm43xx I am able to use 4318 on Acer 5024 turion34 with Ubuntu 7.04. live cd All I need to do is grab the firmware. ;-) since it usually isn't available with distributions Due to intellectual property issues, and the lack of

Re: [bcm43xx-users] 4311 still not receiving

2007-07-01 Thread Larry Finger
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: On 6/23/07, *Larry Finger* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuckk Hubbard wrote: Larry, I think I forgot to mention something... might the fact that it's a 64-bit machine and a 64-bit distro possibly make it not work

Re: bcm4312 on again, off again

2007-07-06 Thread Larry Finger
Brennan Ashton wrote: On 7/4/07, Robert Easter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It took a BS programmer over five hours, but he got my bcm4318 chip talking to my computer with the NDISWrapper and a kernel build. Before that the wireless was showing on the laptop's wifi switch light but not making up

Re: dell e1505 bcm43xx driver, bcm4311 chipset?

2007-07-06 Thread Larry Finger
John H. wrote: I was wondering if, on fedora 7 now with 2.6.21 kernel, it is possible to use bcm43xx driver with this device and get 54mb/s and wpa support? I have the firmware installed, etc. I just had many problems last time, as it wouldn't get 54mb/s, etc. With 2.6.21 or later

Re: Ferrari 3400 device?

2007-07-07 Thread Larry Finger
Florian Erfurth wrote: Ehud Gavron schrieb: Lastly, there is a known POWER problem, which results in better transmission if the transmission rates are reduced. Do you mean this issue? bcm43xx_mac80211: !WARNING! Idle-TSSI phy-cur_id le_tssi measuring failed. (cur=0, tgt=62). Disabling

Re: trouble installing driver for bcm4318

2007-07-10 Thread Larry Finger
Eddy Zhu wrote: Hi I am a newbie to Linux world. I have successfully installed Fedora 6.0 in my compaq presario laptop. But my wireless card doesn't seem to work. I have already spent hours researched online but I can't get a complete instructions step by step on installing a driver

bcm4301: A mac80211 driver using V3 firmware

2007-07-12 Thread Larry Finger
John and Michael, I have good news regarding the driver mentioned in the subject. It is now working on my BCM4311 with performance that is nearly as good as for the softmac driver. My approach has been to take the PHY and radio parts of the softmac driver and use them with as much of the

Re: can I contribute to the project ?

2007-07-15 Thread Larry Finger
167 wrote: Hello. i'm a programmer that owns an HP pavilion which has a bcm 4319 wireless card . Here is the output of lspci -n : 06:02.0 0280: 14e4:4319 (rev 02) i see in the status page that the driver for this card is under development. I've written some programs in c under linux and i

Re: bcm4301: A mac80211 driver using V3 firmware

2007-07-19 Thread Larry Finger
Stefano Brivio wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:58:01 -0400 John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you proposing to add a third driver and deprecate the softmac driver? Or can we treat this as a port of the existing driver to mac80211? I think that might be better for users and

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix deviation from specifications in set_baseband_attenuation

2007-07-25 Thread Larry Finger
: aaf83d4fc4a596929306c894d341e17fbdfba758 Author: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] AuthorDate: Sat May 26 22:21:29 2007 -0500 Committer: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommitDate: Sun Jul 8 22:16:37 2007 -0400 [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix deviation from specifications in set_baseband_attenuation

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix specs typo for baseband attenuation

2007-07-26 Thread Larry Finger
John W. Linville wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:33:01AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: A typo in the specs interchanges the branches in an if statement, which breaks operations for a BCM4306/rev 2 that has phy-analog == 1. @@ -1895,7 +1895,7 @@ void bcm43xx_phy_set_baseband_attenuatio

A problem with shared interrupts

2007-07-26 Thread Larry Finger
Michael, When I try the -mb tree on my old i386 notebook, I get an irq 11: nobody cared message and interrupts for the bcm43xx-mac80211 device are not initialized. The code in Linville's tree works. The only difference that seems to be important is the code returned when a shared interrupt not

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix specs typo for baseband attenuation

2007-07-26 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: Last time I checked this code it matched the specs. And that's not too long ago. Did the specs change? We had a complaint that a change in the V3 specs broke a BCM4306/rev 2 card using bcm43xx - it received but did not transmit. I verified the breakage and found that

Re: A problem with shared interrupts

2007-07-26 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: I neither think this is the correct solution, nor do I think that this is the way bcm43xx-softmac does it. This would always return HANDLED, right? regardless if the IRQ was for bcm43xx or not. I _do_ think that the bug is in the driver sharing the IRQ with bcm43xx.

[PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix specs typo for baseband attenuation

2007-07-26 Thread Larry Finger
A typo in the specs interchanges the branches in an if statement, which breaks operations for a BCM4306/rev 2 that has phy-analog == 1. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- John and Michael, This patch is made for the wireless-dev tree after the bcm43xx-mac80211 directory has been

Re: An entry for the device list

2007-07-25 Thread Larry Finger
Mika Sundland wrote: Hello, I got an HP Pavilion dv9074ea with a wireless network card that uses the bcm43xx module. It's not listed in the device list, so I thought I might submit some info about it. The BCM4312 has been supported for some time. Whick list do you refer to? lspci -vvv:

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