Problem with bcm43xx-80211 Revisited Again

Julius Smith jos at ccrma.stanford.edu
Sun Sep 2 19:00:12 UTC 2007


I too have recently upgraded to this configuration (bcm43xx-8021, version 4
firmware, and FC6).  I also have a wired connection (usually).  The main
lossage I notice is that during boot-up, I see the error messages that 8B06
("Set Mode") 8B20 ("Set Bit Rate") are not recognized commands, and there is
a long pause and ultimate failure trying to obtain an IP address for eth1
(the wireless interface).  Later on, after being logged in for a while, if I
unplug the wired connection eth0, Network Manager has no problem switching
over to the wireless interface.  However, I have been able to hang the
machine by plugging the ethernet cable back in.

Julius

On 9/1/07, Andrew Robinson <awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> 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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