From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from ev1s-209-62-40-50.ev1servers.net ([209.62.40.50]:47265 "EHLO phx1.phoronix.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750916AbYEXDuH (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 23:50:07 -0400 Received: from [70.237.120.89] (helo=[192.168.0.100]) by phx1.phoronix.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Jzk2q-0000Mo-4q for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 22:03:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4837859B.3050100@phoronix.com> (sfid-20080524_055036_080595_DEC70082) Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 23:03:55 -0400 From: Michael Larabel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: b43: Radio Hardware Status Disabled Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: With a Linksys WUSB600N and NetGear WNDA3100, which both appear to utilize a Broadcom 4311 chipset, the radio hardware status always seems to get set to disabled immediately after the wireless interface is started and are never re-enabled. This is happening with the b43 driver (found in Linux 2.6.25.3 kernel) on Fedora 9. Below is the dmesg and lspci output. dmesg | grep b43 b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 4, Type 2, Revision 8 b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2 input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input10 b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10) b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized b43-phy0 debug: 32-bit DMA initialized Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2 05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI [14e4:4311] (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Unknown device [1028:0007] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 Memory at c0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge Kernel modules: ssb Anything to get these cards working? Michael