At Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:36:16 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:00:11 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
>> The guide recommended wl_apsta.o for firmware, but that failed the
>> bcm43xx-fwcutter command so I then tried wl.o, which bcm43xx was happy
>> with.
>
> It seems that some cards can be fussy about firmware, so try some
> different ones. I have the following installed and my card works OK,
> although it sometimes takes a couple of attempts to get a good
> connection.
>
> bcm43xx_initval01.fw bcm43xx_initval07.fw bcm43xx_microcode4.fw
> bcm43xx_initval02.fw bcm43xx_initval08.fw bcm43xx_microcode5.fw
> bcm43xx_initval03.fw bcm43xx_initval09.fw bcm43xx_pcm4.fw
> bcm43xx_initval04.fw bcm43xx_initval10.fw bcm43xx_pcm5.fw
> bcm43xx_initval05.fw bcm43xx_microcode11.fw
> bcm43xx_initval06.fw bcm43xx_microcode2.fw
>
> You don't say which card you are using, some are more problematic than
> others, the gentoo-sources Changleog shows that support for some versions
> is still being added. "lspci | grep BCM" will show you the exact model.
Sorry for forgetting to include the lspci output
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 015f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
Memory at faffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
I will load more firmware and try again. Here is the message I get
when trying to use fwcutter for some of the firmware listed in
/usr/doc/bcm43xx-fwcutter-004/README.gz
Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by
bcm43xx-fwcutter. I can't find the MD5sum
1c104a2604fe0cef8c8ea187dc752e43 :(
So far I have
bcm43xx_initval01.fw bcm43xx_initval06.fw bcm43xx_microcode2.fw
bcm43xx_initval02.fw bcm43xx_initval07.fw bcm43xx_microcode4.fw
bcm43xx_initval03.fw bcm43xx_initval08.fw bcm43xx_microcode5.fw
bcm43xx_initval04.fw bcm43xx_initval09.fw bcm43xx_pcm4.fw
bcm43xx_initval05.fw bcm43xx_initval10.fw bcm43xx_pcm5.fw
and still /etc/init.d/net.eth1 fails. The end of dmesg is
bcm43xx: set security called
bcm43xx: .level = 0
bcm43xx: .enabled = 0
bcm43xx: .encrypt = 0
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC: Unable to find matching network after scan!
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0260 (RX) max used slots: 1/64
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: 2/512
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0260 (RX) max used slots: 0/64
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 0/64
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
I assume I have some config wrong or forgot to do something, but I
don't know what it is. I guess I will grab some more firmware since
you have more that I do :-).
Thanks for your help,
allan
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