Sucess with Broadcom BCM43xx in FC5T2 but not with system-config-network
Stanton Finley
stanfinley at comcast.net
Wed Feb 1 05:23:40 UTC 2006
These are the steps I took to make this work on a HP Pavilion ZE2108WM
Notebook with onboard Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g]
802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) running FC5test1 with the
2.6.15-1.1884_FC5 i686 kernel today:
[stan at localhost ~]$ svn checkout
svn://svn.berlios.de/bcm43xx/trunk/fwcutter
A fwcutter/fwcutter.c
A fwcutter/fwcutter_list.h
A fwcutter/md5.c
A fwcutter/md5.h
A fwcutter/Makefile
A fwcutter/README
U fwcutter
Checked out revision 1106.
[stan at localhost ~]$ ls
Desktop fwcutter
[stan at localhost ~]$ cd fwcutter
[stan at localhost fwcutter]$ ls
fwcutter.c fwcutter_list.h Makefile md5.c md5.h README
[stan at localhost fwcutter]$ make
cc -std=c99 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -pedantic -D_BSD_SOURCE
-DFWCUTTER_VERSION_=0.0.1 -c -o fwcutter.o fwcutter.c
cc -std=c99 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -pedantic -D_BSD_SOURCE
-DFWCUTTER_VERSION_=0.0.1 -c -o md5.o md5.c
cc -std=c99 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -pedantic -D_BSD_SOURCE
-DFWCUTTER_VERSION_=0.0.1 -o fwcutter fwcutter.o md5.o
[stan at localhost fwcutter]$ su
Password:
[root at localhost fwcutter]# make install
install -o 0 -g 0 -m 755 fwcutter /usr/local/bin/
[root at localhost fwcutter]#
At this point I copied bcmwl5.sys to ~/ from the WLAN folder of the HP
driver disk that came with the laptop and chmoded it to 777. (This same
driver file is also available at
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_3020_5020/driver/80211g.zip ).
[root at localhost stan]# ls
bcmwl5.sys Desktop fwcutter
[root at localhost stan]# mv bcmwl5.sys ./fwcutter
[root at localhost stan]# cd fwcutter
[root at localhost fwcutter]# ls
bcmwl5.sys fwcutter fwcutter.c fwcutter_list.h fwcutter.o Makefile
md5.c md5.h md5.o README
[root at localhost fwcutter]# fwcutter bcmwl5.sys
fwcutter can cut the firmware out of bcmwl5.sys
filename : bcmwl5.sys
version : 3.100.64.0
MD5 : e7debb46b9ef1f28932e533be4a3d1a9
extracting bcm43xx_microcode2.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode5.fw ...
*****: Sorry, it's not posible to extract "bcm43xx_microcode11.fw".
*****: Extracting firmware from an old driver is bad. Choose a more
recent one.
*****: Luckily bcm43xx driver doesn't include microcode11 uploads at the
moment.
*****: But this can be added in the future...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm5.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval01.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval02.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval03.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval04.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval05.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval06.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval07.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval08.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval09.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval10.fw ...
[root at localhost fwcutter]# make installfw
if ! [ -d /lib/firmware ]; then mkdir /lib/firmware; fi
install -o 0 -g 0 -m 600 bcm43xx_*.fw /lib/firmware
[root at localhost fwcutter]# ls /lib/firmware
bcm43xx_initval01.fw bcm43xx_initval04.fw bcm43xx_initval07.fw
bcm43xx_initval10.fw bcm43xx_microcode5.fw
bcm43xx_initval02.fw bcm43xx_initval05.fw bcm43xx_initval08.fw
bcm43xx_microcode2.fw bcm43xx_pcm4.fw
bcm43xx_initval03.fw bcm43xx_initval06.fw bcm43xx_initval09.fw
bcm43xx_microcode4.fw bcm43xx_pcm5.fw
[root at localhost fwcutter]#
At this point the firmware seems to be installed.
[root at localhost fwcutter]# system-config-network
Hit "Edit" on "eth1" and made sure that "Activate device when computer
starts" was checked on the "General" tab and that dhcp is selected. On
the "Wireless Settings" tab entered all of the WEP parameters that used
to work with ndiswrappper: Mode: Auto, Network name (SSID) specified,
xxx, Channel: 6, Transmit rate: 11M (instead of "Auto" which used to
work using ndiswrapper on FC4), Key (use 0x for hex): 0xxxxxxxxxxx,
clicked "OK". Clicked "Active" on highlighted "eth1". Clicked "Yes".
Clicked "OK". Dialog box came up "Determining IP information for eth1...
failed. Cannot activate network device eth1". Rebooted. eth1 fails to
start. su -ed to root. Typed "ifup eth1". Saw "Determinng IP information
for eth1... failed.
At this point looked at dmesg and saw these relevant lines:
"bcm43xx": set security called
"bcm43xx": .active_key = 0
"bcm43xx": .level = 1
"bcm43xx": .enabled = 1
"bcm43xx": .encrypt = 1
SoftMAC:
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c:183:ieee80211softmac_assoc_work()
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up?
"bcm43xx": Radio turned on
"bcm43xx": Chip initialized
"bcm43xx": DMA initialized
"bcm43xx": 80211 cores initialized
"bcm43xx": Keys cleared
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
"bcm43xx": Radio turned off
"bcm43xx": DMA 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 1/64
"bcm43xx": DMA 0x0260 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
"bcm43xx": DMA 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
"bcm43xx": DMA 0x0220 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
"bcm43xx": DMA 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
Now using some steps from
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/fedora-ppc/2006-January/000691.html :
[root at localhost ~]# ip link set eth1 up
[root at localhost ~]# iwconfig eth1 enc my_hex_wep_key
[root at localhost ~]# iwconfig eth1 essid my_essid
[root at localhost ~]# ifup eth1
Determining IP information for eth1... done.
Sucess! I see the expected IP from ifconfig. Ping works. Internet works.
And from dmesg:
"bcm43xx": PHY connected
"bcm43xx": Radio turned on
"bcm43xx": Chip initialized
"bcm43xx": DMA initialized
"bcm43xx": 80211 cores initialized
"bcm43xx": Keys cleared
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
"bcm43xx": set security called
"bcm43xx": .active_key = 0
"bcm43xx": .level = 1
"bcm43xx": .enabled = 1
"bcm43xx": .encrypt = 1
SoftMAC:
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c:183:ieee80211softmac_assoc_work()
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 13 channels
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC:
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c:183:ieee80211softmac_assoc_work()
SoftMAC:
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_auth.c:39:ieee80211softmac_auth_req()
SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to 00:13:10:e9:5c:c2
SoftMAC: cannot associate without being authenticated, requested
authentication
SoftMAC:
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_auth.c:81:ieee80211softmac_auth_queue()
SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:13:10:e9:5c:c2.
SoftMAC:
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_auth.c:131:ieee80211softmac_auth_resp()
SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:13:10:e9:5c:c2
SoftMAC:
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c:183:ieee80211softmac_assoc_work()
SoftMAC:
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c:41:ieee80211softmac_assoc()
SoftMAC: sent association request!
SoftMAC: associated!
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
Other relevant information: Network manager is not running.
So:
1. Why can't I get these results from system-config-network?
2. How can I automate the following as a startup script?:
ip link set eth1 up
iwconfig eth1 enc my_hex_wep_key
iwconfig eth1 essid my_essid
ifup eth1
3. Is a bug report in order?
Stanton Finley
http://stanton-finley.net/
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