Problem with bcm43xx-80211 Revisited Again

Andrew Robinson awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com
Sun Sep 2 02:35:17 UTC 2007


Sorry I dropped off the thread, but Time Warner lost my Internet 
connection for the better part of the week. I appreciate everyone's eyes 
and help so far.

To summarize, I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.22.2-42.fc6 and then had to 
upgrade to bcm43xx-80211 and version 4 of the drivers for my wireless. 
Now after booting up, the radio is configured (iwconfig) and the adapter 
is configured (ifconfig), but I cannot connect to the Internet. If I run 
'ifup eth1', my network then works. It is as if 'ifconfig' was run 
before 'iwconfig' during the bootup process.

While my Internet connection was out, I created a work-around. I created 
an init.d script that runs 'ifup' and set it to run just before the 
netfs script. I added 'ifconfig', 'iwconfig', 'iwlist' and 'ping' 
commands before and after the 'ifup' to try to capture the state of the 
interface before and after the 'ifup'. The results are listed below. I 
don't see anything in there to indicate the problem. If any of you guys 
do, please let me know.

Thanks!

Andrew Robinson

Before ifup
*** 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=49/100  Signal level=-49 dBm  Noise 
level=-256 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=000005d6632d8026
           Cell 02 - Address: 00:16:B6:DB:0B:8C
                     ESSID:"robinson"
                     Mode:Master
                     Channel:6
                     Frequency:2.437 GHz
                     Quality=43/100  Signal level=-58 dBm  Noise 
level=-256 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=00000027bf2dd0d8

*** iwconfig ***
lo        no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

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...

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"robinson"
           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 
00:18:39:7A:B4:C0
           Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
           Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2346 B
           Encryption key:4138-9E74-82F5-7848-53EF-79E1-FE
           Link Quality=49/100  Signal level=-48 dBm  Noise level=-256 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

*** 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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:108 (108.0 b)

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:747 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:747 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:1541708 (1.4 MiB)  TX bytes:1541708 (1.4 MiB)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-90-96-79-86-70-E8-1B-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)

*** ping ***
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
 From 192.168.1.25 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
 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, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 1998ms
, pipe 3


After ifup
*** 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=46/100  Signal level=-54 dBm  Noise 
level=-256 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=000005d6636d05d4
           Cell 02 - Address: 00:16:B6:DB:0B:8C
                     ESSID:"robinson"
                     Mode:Master
                     Channel:6
                     Frequency:2.437 GHz
                     Quality=44/100  Signal level=-57 dBm  Noise 
level=-256 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=00000027bf6d744b

*** iwconfig ***
lo        no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

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...

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"robinson"
           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 
00:18:39:7A:B4:C0
           Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
           Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2346 B
           Encryption key:4138-9E74-82F5-7848-53EF-79E1-FE
           Link Quality=53/100  Signal level=-41 dBm  Noise level=-256 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

*** 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:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:174 (174.0 b)  TX bytes:532 (532.0 b)

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:886 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:886 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:1700068 (1.6 MiB)  TX bytes:1700068 (1.6 MiB)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-90-96-79-86-70-78-FA-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)

*** ping ***
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=87.9 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=72.7 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=3.32 ms

--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 3.328/54.664/87.904/36.823 ms




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