bcm43xx wireless drivers.

[Steven Haigh]

Has anyone managed to get a BCM4306 wifi card working with rawhide?  
I've been trying for quite a while, and with just about every firmware  
version I can locate but still not had any luck.

With the latest kernel (2.6.17-1.2617.2.1.fc6), I don't even seem to  
get a list of AP's that are around. From a quick google, it looks as  
though the bcm43xx driver might be a fair bit out of the actual  
bcm43xx development - as there seems to be a patch back in July that  
*may* fix this IRQ issue.

dmesg shows the following:

bcm43xx driver
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:03.0 (0100 -> 0102)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 7 (level,  
low) -> IRQ 7
bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x2
bcm43xx: Number of cores: 6
bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x1, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x1, vendor 0x4243, disabled
bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x7, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 5: ID 0x812, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243, disabled
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 1, Type 2, Revision 1
bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2)
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: PHY disconnected
bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 1, Type 0, Revision 2
bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 1206017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2060 Rev: 1)
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: PHY disconnected
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up.
bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up.
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up?
bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0
SoftMAC: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at:  
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:306:ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate()
bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up.
bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up.
bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up.
SoftMAC: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at:  
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:306:ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate()
SoftMAC: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at:  
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:306:ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate()
bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up.
SoftMAC: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at:  
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:306:ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate()
bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up.
bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up.
bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up.
bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up.
bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up.
bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up.

Is anyone successfully using this card? Mine is in a Dell Inspiron  
8600 laptop.

-- 
Steven Haigh

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