Problem with bcm43xx-80211 Revisited

Andrew Robinson awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com
Tue Aug 28 17:44:28 UTC 2007


Whenst last we left our hero, I had let yum upgrade my kernel on FC6 to 
2.6.22.1-32.fc6, which required bcm43xx drivers version 4. However, 
bcm43xx-fwcutter had not been upgraded and would not handle the new 
drives. Moving forward, last night I updated to the latest 
bcm43xx-fwcutter and extracted the version 4 drivers. My laptop's 
wireless now works but not at boot time. I have to run 'modprobe 
bcm43xx-mac80211' and 'ifup eth1' to get an actual network connection. I 
tried to illustrate the situation with the output below. It seems like 
there is a timing or order issue.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong or need to do differently to get the 
new version of bcm43xx working on my laptop?

Thanks!

Andrew Robinson

[root at proteus ~]# lsmod | grep bcm43xx

bcm43xx_mac80211      397601  0
ssb                    35141  1 bcm43xx_mac80211
mac80211              145865  2 rc80211_simple,bcm43xx_mac80211

[root at proteus ~]# iwlist eth1 scan

Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
Some things may be broken...

eth1      Scan completed :
           Cell 01 - Address: 00:18:39:7A:B4:C0
                     ESSID:"robinson"
                     Mode:Master
                     Channel:6
                     Frequency:2.437 GHz
                     Quality=47/100  Signal level=-50 dBm  Noise 
level=-68 dBm
                     Encryption key:on
                     Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                               24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                               12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                     Extra:tsf=0000059292340402
           Cell 02 - Address: 00:16:B6:DB:0B:8C
                     ESSID:"robinson"
                     Mode:Master
                     Channel:6
                     Frequency:2.437 GHz
                     Quality=41/100  Signal level=-60 dBm  Noise 
level=-68 dBm
                     Encryption key:on
                     Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                               24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                               12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                     Extra:tsf=000005929477611c

[root at proteus ~]# ifconfig

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:96:79:86:70
           inet addr:192.168.1.25  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::290:96ff:fe79:8670/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:71 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:89 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:4118 (4.0 KiB)  TX bytes:9175 (8.9 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:3837 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:3837 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:4849964 (4.6 MiB)  TX bytes:4849964 (4.6 MiB)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-90-96-79-86-70-28-49-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[root at proteus ~]# ping -c 3 192.168.1.1

PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
 From 192.168.1.25 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.25 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +2 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2008ms
, pipe 2

[root at proteus ~]# modprobe bcm43xx-mac80211

[root at proteus ~]# ifup eth1

[root at proteus ~]# ping -c 3 192.168.1.1

PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.87 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=3.31 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=2.95 ms

--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.876/2.714/3.310/0.609 ms




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