Re: [b43] About supporting of BCM4312 [14e4:4315] with Low Power PHY

[Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>]

Bryan Wu wrote:
> Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>> 2009/9/16 Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>:
>>> Hi Gabor,
>>>
>>> I tried the latest cmpat-wireless 09-16 snapshot on my machine which runs on 2.6.31
>>> Ubuntu Karmic latest kernel. The hardware probing passes and wlan1 interface shows up.
>>> But the iwlist scanning got no data from wlan1 interface,
>>>
>>> dmesg:
>>> ---
>>> [  364.371703] b43-pci-bridge 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
>>> [  364.371761] b43-pci-bridge 0000:07:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
>>> [  364.437779] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:07:00.0
>>> [  364.491488] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15)
>>> [  364.533562] b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 6, Type 5, Revision 1
>>> [  364.533604] b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2062, Revision 2
>>> [  364.693040] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
>>> [  364.701666] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PML, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
>>> [  364.748486] udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan1
>>> [  364.824296] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode15.fw
>>> [  364.901848] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0initvals15.fw
>>> [  364.931482] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw
>>> [  365.140212] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
>> Please test with v478 or newer.
> 
> OK, do you know where can I find this firmware? I just followed the wiki page to get the firmware, but it seems the same version as I am using.
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#device_firmware
> 

I tried the one from here: http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2
Still got the same result,
[   95.360263] b43-pci-bridge 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[  122.214822] b43-pci-bridge 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[  122.214880] b43-pci-bridge 0000:07:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[  122.285420] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:07:00.0
[  122.354411] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15)
[  122.397222] b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 6, Type 5, Revision 1
[  122.397260] b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2062, Revision 2
[  122.544617] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
[  122.549401] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PML, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
[  122.675356] udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan1
[  122.769147] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode15.fw
[  122.847433] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0initvals15.fw
[  122.883806] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw
[  123.113178] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23)
[  123.117334] b43-phy0 debug: b2062: Using crystal tab entry 19200 kHz.
[  123.385222] b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized
[  123.385794] b43-phy0 debug: 64-bit DMA initialized
[  123.385850] b43-phy0 debug: QoS disabled
[  123.406615] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[  123.406745] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[  123.406874] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[  123.407281] b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started
[  123.407374] b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2
[  123.421273] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready

Thanks,
-Bryan