b43 on a Linksys WRT54GL

2007-11-10 Thread Maurits Dijkstra
Hi all, The last few days I've been trying to get b43 to work on my WRT54GL wlan-router. The reason I've been trying this is because I want to use the device as a bridge between the local university wlan and my own local network. However, because the network I'm trying to connect to is part of

Re: b43 on a Linksys WRT54GL

2007-11-10 Thread Larry Finger
Maurits Dijkstra wrote: Hi all, The last few days I've been trying to get b43 to work on my WRT54GL wlan-router. The reason I've been trying this is because I want to use the device as a bridge between the local university wlan and my own local network. However, because the network I'm

Re: b43 on a Linksys WRT54GL

2007-11-10 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Larry Finger wrote: I think your system doesn't use PCI, so this probably won't work, but you should be able to implement something similar. Once you have a dump, you should be able to find the MAC addresses of the wireless and ethernet interfaces. IIRC the WRTs don't have a sprom, instead

Linksys N card (4329)... is this an RE project...

2007-08-14 Thread Ehud Gavron
I have a Linksys PCMCIA N card which IDs as a BCM43XG, but unfortunately is model 0x4329 rev 01, which is not on the hardware list as a supported device. Is this something that requires RE effort... and am I tainted because I've looked at the Linux driver (reverse tainted) or am I clear

Re: Linksys N card (4329)... is this an RE project...

2007-08-14 Thread Larry Finger
Ehud Gavron wrote: I have a Linksys PCMCIA N card which IDs as a BCM43XG, but unfortunately is model 0x4329 rev 01, which is not on the hardware list as a supported device. Is this something that requires RE effort... and am I tainted because I've looked at the Linux driver (reverse

Re: 4318 (LinkSys WPC54GS) progress

2007-01-29 Thread Michael Buesch
On Monday 29 January 2007 04:18, Larry Finger wrote: Although we have not made any progress on the transmit strength problem with 4318, 4311 and 4312 That's not true. We are doing progress, but we didn't solve the issue completely, yet. It's a complicated issue. ;) -- Greetings Michael.

Re: 4318 (LinkSys WPC54GS) progress

2007-01-29 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: On Monday 29 January 2007 04:18, Larry Finger wrote: Although we have not made any progress on the transmit strength problem with 4318, 4311 and 4312 That's not true. We are doing progress, but we didn't solve the issue completely, yet. It's a complicated issue. ;) I

4318 (LinkSys WPC54GS) progress

2007-01-28 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hello. I am the owner of a card (a LinkSys Wireless-G WPC54GS (ver.2)) which has a 4318 chip: kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2kernel: bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4 kernel: bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243, enabled kernel: bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243

Re: 4318 (LinkSys WPC54GS) progress

2007-01-28 Thread Larry Finger
Jim McCloskey wrote: Hello. I am the owner of a card (a LinkSys Wireless-G WPC54GS (ver.2)) which has a 4318 chip: kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2kernel: bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4 kernel: bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243, enabled kernel: bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812

Re: bug report : dscape bcm43xx on linksys WRT54G

2006-11-15 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Vincent Danjean wrote: When building this system (with a cross compiler : WRT54G is mips), we can choose to compile the bcm43xx module (the SoftMac one). The sources for this module are not patched (ie they are the same as the ones in 2.6.17 official linux kernel). However, I want to use my

bug report : dscape bcm43xx on linksys WRT54G

2006-11-14 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, I have a linksys WRT54G on which I install OpenWRT (the development version, ie Kamikaze). This linux system comes with a 2.6.17 kernel (not the linus kernel but one patched to support some of the WRT54G hardware). When building this system (with a cross compiler : WRT54G is mips), we

Re: bug report : dscape bcm43xx on linksys WRT54G

2006-11-14 Thread Michael Buesch
On Monday 13 November 2006 23:45, Vincent Danjean wrote: Index: dscape-ieee80211/src/wireless-dev/ssb/ssb.c === --- dscape-ieee80211.orig/src/wireless-dev/ssb/ssb.c 2006-11-13 02:00:02.0 +0100 +++

Re: Linksys WPC54G PCMCIA/Cardbus adapter

2006-08-10 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:02:04AM +1000, Ben Klein wrote: I have just bought a Linksys WPC54G adapter based on research indicating it was a Broadcom chipset that works with ndiswrapper. I have not tried ndiswrapper yet, as I found out about bcm43xx in the 2.6.17 kernel after confirming

Re: Linksys WPC54G PCMCIA/Cardbus adapter

2006-08-10 Thread Ben Klein
:04AM +1000, Ben Klein wrote: I have just bought a Linksys WPC54G adapter based on research indicating it was a Broadcom chipset that works with ndiswrapper. I have not tried ndiswrapper yet, as I found out about bcm43xx in the 2.6.17 kernel after confirming it is a Broadcom. I'm sending this email

Linksys WPC54G PCMCIA/Cardbus adapter

2006-08-09 Thread Ben Klein
I have just bought a Linksys WPC54G adapter based on research indicating it was a Broadcom chipset that works with ndiswrapper. I have not tried ndiswrapper yet, as I found out about bcm43xx in the 2.6.17 kernel after confirming it is a Broadcom. I'm sending this email to show the product/vendor

Re: Linksys WPC54G PCMCIA/Cardbus adapter

2006-08-09 Thread Larry Finger
Ben Klein wrote: I have just bought a Linksys WPC54G adapter based on research indicating it was a Broadcom chipset that works with ndiswrapper. I have not tried ndiswrapper yet, as I found out about bcm43xx in the 2.6.17 kernel after confirming it is a Broadcom. I'm sending this email

LinkSys Wireless-G WPC54GS (ver.2)

2006-07-10 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hello. I'm trying to get a LinkSys Wireless G WPC54GS card to work, using the bcm43xx driver. This card has the Broadcom 4318 chipset. The kernel here is a hand-compiled version of 2.6.17. I have version 28-1 of wireless-tools from Debian unstable, and udev 0.093 also from Debian unstable

Success: Linksys WPC54G-EU v3

2006-04-06 Thread Erik Mouw
Hi, I couldn't find the Linksys WPC54G-EU v3 in the list of bcm43xx devices at http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Bcm43xxDevices , but I'd like to report that it works just fine with linux-2.6.17-rc1. Here's the output from lspci: :02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom

Re: aireplay troubles was: Re: bcm43xx with Linksys WPC54G with FC5T3

2006-03-03 Thread Johannes Berg
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 19:52 +0100, Khiraly wrote: The driver say nothing if you specify wrong essid (or the AP is not present), there is no message in dmesg. If the associated was successfull is a message in dmesg: Actually, there are some things reported when you listen to the right events

Re: aireplay troubles was: Re: bcm43xx with Linksys WPC54G with FC5T3

2006-03-03 Thread Johannes Berg
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 19:52 +0100, Khiraly wrote: The driver is perfect to normal usage, even kismet works fine, but its not good for penetration testing. Well. For that you really need a 'raw' sending mode which we haven't written yet. Search the archives -- I've detailed that before.

Re: bcm43xx with Linksys WPC54G with FC5T3

2006-02-28 Thread Larry Finger
Gregory Gulik wrote: I was surprised (pleasantly at first) to find there was a bcm43xx driver included in the Fedora Core 5 Test 3 release. Anyway, I found the firmware and I think I installed it correctly. However, when the device gets started up it seems to think the radio is turned off

Re: bcm43xx with Linksys WPC54G with FC5T3

2006-02-28 Thread Gregory Gulik
Ok, I tried that and still nothing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ifconfig eth1 up [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# iwconfig eth1 eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"Auto" Nickname:"dell8100" Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=2346 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off

Re: bcm43xx with Linksys WPC54G with FC5T3

2006-02-28 Thread Gregory Gulik
Here you go. I ejected and re-inserted the card to get a full picture of what's happening. Feb 28 12:07:54 dell8100 kernel: pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 1 Feb 28 12:07:54 dell8100 kernel: PCI: Enabling device :0d:00.0 ( - 0002) Feb 28 12:07:54 dell8100 kernel: ACPI: PCI

Re: bcm43xx with Linksys WPC54G with FC5T3

2006-02-28 Thread Khiraly
2006. 02. 28, kedd keltezéssel 11.46-kor Gregory Gulik ezt írta: Ok, I tried that and still nothing: Try first without dhclient (you can use dhclient after to I tipically do the following: ifconfig eth2 down; rmmod bcm43xx; modprobe bcm43xx; ifconfig eth2 up 192.168.1.15; iwconfig eth2 essid

Re: bcm43xx with Linksys WPC54G with FC5T3

2006-02-28 Thread Gregory Gulik
Grrr, it worked to set the essid manually. The static IP worked, then running the dhcp client after that also worked. Why is that? does this driver need the essid specified? I never had to do that with other wifi drivers. Khiraly wrote: Try first without dhclient (you can use dhclient

Re: aireplay troubles was: Re: bcm43xx with Linksys WPC54G with FC5T3

2006-02-28 Thread Gregory Gulik
Khiraly wrote: Ok. Here is thoughts what I experienced (softmac version). The driver says nothing if it was disassociated from the AP, so to specify manually the essid its always a good idea. The driver say nothing if you specify wrong essid (or the AP is not present), there is no message in

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-11 Thread Mike Leahy
Ok...apparently my previous wpa_supplicant config was interfering. Just for kicks I decided to edit wpa_supplicant.conf, and simply commented-out everything that I had in there to make ndiswrapper work with my WPA-PSK settings (I thought I had tried this before with no results). Voila (after

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-11 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 23:40 -0500, Mike Leahy wrote: Feb 9 23:29:35 localhost firmware_helper[3127]: Loading of /lib/firmware/bcm43xx_microcode4.fw for bcm43xx driver failed: No such file or directory no comment. johannes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-11 Thread Stefano Brivio
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 06:02:25 -0500 Mike Leahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any other suggestions? Move closer to your AP. Note that this driver has still some issues with TX power. -- ciao st3 ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-11 Thread Larry Finger
Mike Leahy wrote: Stefano, I gave your suggestion a try...distance doesn't seem to have any impact. Setting the txpower via iwconfig doesn't seem to have any obvious effect either. The set_xmitpower section is still a TODO. The interface accepts the input but then throws it away. Larry

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-11 Thread Michael Buesch
On Saturday 11 February 2006 17:22, Larry Finger wrote: Mike Leahy wrote: Stefano, I gave your suggestion a try...distance doesn't seem to have any impact. Setting the txpower via iwconfig doesn't seem to have any obvious effect either. The set_xmitpower section is still a TODO.

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-11 Thread Michael Buesch
On Saturday 11 February 2006 17:55, you wrote: Michael Buesch wrote: On Saturday 11 February 2006 17:22, Larry Finger wrote: Mike Leahy wrote: Stefano, I gave your suggestion a try...distance doesn't seem to have any impact. Setting the txpower via iwconfig doesn't seem to have any

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-11 Thread Michael Buesch
On Saturday 11 February 2006 18:46, you wrote: Michael Buesch wrote: On Saturday 11 February 2006 17:55, you wrote: Michael Buesch wrote: On Saturday 11 February 2006 17:22, Larry Finger wrote: Mike Leahy wrote: Stefano, I gave your suggestion a try...distance doesn't seem

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-10 Thread Mike Leahy
turn to the default linksys-brand drivers? I guess I'll give that a try next... Here's what I get with ifconfig: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:25:40:4C:53 inet6 addr: fe80::206:25ff:fe40:4c53/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-08 Thread Scott Robinson
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:18:24PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: [...] Well, I did not publish the URL on the homepage, because it is not really needed for everyone to clone my repository. Currently, there are all-in-one snapshots available. I am going to setup a script for softmac standalone

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-08 Thread Michael Buesch
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 17:47, you wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:18:24PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: [...] Well, I did not publish the URL on the homepage, because it is not really needed for everyone to clone my repository. Currently, there are all-in-one snapshots available.

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-08 Thread Michael Buesch
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 20:10, you wrote: The new standalone isn't working for me. Compilation and syntax errors all over the place - mostly near the error handling gotos. Attached is the results of a compilation attempt. I'm going to give a look at see if I can figure out the issue.

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-08 Thread Scott Robinson
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:16:30PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: [...] I am not sure what you are doing, but it compiles for me. ;) Are you trying on a recent kernel with softmac installed? Yes, my build setup is ok. The issue was KBUILD_MODNAME is defined without quotes. I did a patch

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-07 Thread Larry Finger
Scott Robinson wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:50:08PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: [...] As you are obviously in the FC test program, could you inquire where they are downloading softmac and bcm43xx code? [...] That's a good braod question. There have been a lot of patches flying back on

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-07 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 12:50 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: I wonder where Fedora is getting their source. The iwconfig errors you report were fixed about a month ago. On my system, WPA started working on Jan. 12 and that didn't work until most of the IOCTL links used by iwconfig were working.

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-07 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 15:31 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: I'm not quite sure where the patches are. The subversion tree is a lot newer than the FC sources seem to be, but not current. Michael Buesch has a private git tree, but I not comfortable giving you that URL. If he is willing to publish it,

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-06 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: On Monday 06 February 2006 08:22, Mike Leahy wrote: Thanks for the tip. I eventually abandoned bcm43xx in favour of ndiswrapper. Maybe bcm43xx driver works for some people...but never for me. I've been running FC5T2 (and subsequent updates) - every kernel that gets

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-06 Thread Mike Leahy
Larry, Thanks for letting me know - I'll keep a lookout for it in the updates with FC5. I'm well aware of how lucky I am to have this working - I did notice that 4k stack issue, but I also hacked around with my configuration quite a bit until at some point it just seemed to start working with

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-05 Thread Mike Leahy
Hello list, I'm just wondering if anyone knows where I can find some instructions or How-to documentation - I've got the same WPC54G pcmcia card on my laptop, with FC5 test 2 fully updated. I can get as far as getting some basic info on the card from iwconfig (which reported a Broadcom 4306 as

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Link LED not working on cardbus Linksys WPC54G

2006-02-05 Thread Tim Cooijmans
On Friday 27 January 2006 04:17, Mike Leahy wrote: I'd be delighted to know how anyone else may have got this card working (whether or not the LED works is secondary given my current problem)... I use SWScanner http://swscanner.org/. It doesn't seem to support WPA though. Tim

Re: Linksys

2006-02-05 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 05 February 2006 18:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you also add support for linksys technology for improving signalstrenght by using two or more antennas ? I personally use a debian system with a Linksys WMP54G card. Could you tell me if , and if yes , at what time