Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with bcm43xx

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

At Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:36:16 +0100 Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> 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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