Wireless Problem

Wireless Problem

[Vince Radice]

Hi,

     I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter 
working.  I have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to 
figure out what is happening.  I have attached two files.  One contains 
the output from dmesg.  The other has the output from several commands 
as requested in the doc.

     I have the latest of all of the commonly used software - 
ndiswrapper, Broadcom STA, Fedora FC16 with all updates, b43-fwcutter, 
and a lot more that I can't remember.

     The pc I am using has an ethernet connection.  I am trying to get 
the wireless working there.  I am not able to successfully connect to my 
home wireless network.  I can somewhat connect by manually assigning the 
IP address.  It will connect and assign an IP address but I can't do 
anything.  If I try ping, I get host unreachable.

     My question stems from a lack of what to do.  Looking at your 
documentation, I see references to b43-fwcutter.  Do I have to do 
something with that program? I have read what it does, but no where have 
I read anything about me having to do something to get the firmware.

     Another question is which drivers should I be using - Broadcom STA, 
b43, or ndiswrapper with windows drivers for xp?  I have tried to get 
all of these working at some point.  I may have tried running several at 
the same time as I don't know how to check what is being used.  I can 
list what is installed.

     Should I open a thread some place?  If so, I was thinking the 
Networking forum at Fedora.  I found your site listed in one recent post 
there.  I could add to it.

     Thanks in advance for any help and advice you give.

Vince Radice
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Wireless Problem

[Rafał Miłecki]

2012/2/9 Vince Radice <vhradice@cfl.rr.com>:
> ? ?I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter working. ?I
> have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to figure out what
> is happening. ?I have attached two files. ?One contains the output from
> dmesg. ?The other has the output from several commands as requested in the
> doc.

This is BCM43231, fullmac device, nothing to-be-covered by b43 driver.
The driver that may support this chipset is brcmfmac, but for now only
support for BCM4329, BCM4330 and BCM43236 was recently-added. I think
I remember Arend saying they are not working on support for BCM43231
for now. I may be wrong however.

We could try hacking support for this chipset by just extracting
firmware for BCM43231 and adding proper USB ID in brcmfmac. I don't
think anyone is working on this.

-- 
Rafa?

Wireless Problem

[Arend van Spriel]

On 02/09/2012 08:17 PM, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote:
> 2012/2/9 Vince Radice <vhradice@cfl.rr.com>:
>>    I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter working.  I
>> have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to figure out what
>> is happening.  I have attached two files.  One contains the output from
>> dmesg.  The other has the output from several commands as requested in the
>> doc.
> 
> This is BCM43231, fullmac device, nothing to-be-covered by b43 driver.
> The driver that may support this chipset is brcmfmac, but for now only
> support for BCM4329, BCM4330 and BCM43236 was recently-added. I think
> I remember Arend saying they are not working on support for BCM43231
> for now. I may be wrong however.

You are correct.

> We could try hacking support for this chipset by just extracting
> firmware for BCM43231 and adding proper USB ID in brcmfmac. I don't
> think anyone is working on this.
> 

I believe the API between driver and firmware is different so expect
problems doing that. I can inform just how different.

Gr. AvS

Wireless Problem

[Vince Radice]

Thank you for the quick response.  Some of the posts that I looked at 
indicated success with what was available, but they never came back with 
the proper list of what worked.

     As for my question about b43-fwcutter, do I do something with this 
or is it done behind the scenes by a driver?

     Also, some have had success with the STA drivers.  I believe that I 
have installed them with yum.  How can I tell if they are being used?  
Can I somehow tie those drivers with my usb adapter?

Again, thanks,

Vince Radice

On 02/09/2012 02:38 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 08:17 PM, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote:
>> 2012/2/9 Vince Radice<vhradice@cfl.rr.com>:
>>>     I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter working.  I
>>> have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to figure out what
>>> is happening.  I have attached two files.  One contains the output from
>>> dmesg.  The other has the output from several commands as requested in the
>>> doc.
>> This is BCM43231, fullmac device, nothing to-be-covered by b43 driver.
>> The driver that may support this chipset is brcmfmac, but for now only
>> support for BCM4329, BCM4330 and BCM43236 was recently-added. I think
>> I remember Arend saying they are not working on support for BCM43231
>> for now. I may be wrong however.
> You are correct.
>
>> We could try hacking support for this chipset by just extracting
>> firmware for BCM43231 and adding proper USB ID in brcmfmac. I don't
>> think anyone is working on this.
>>
> I believe the API between driver and firmware is different so expect
> problems doing that. I can inform just how different.
>
> Gr. AvS
>
>

Wireless Problem

[Rafał Miłecki]

W dniu 9 lutego 2012 21:55 u?ytkownik Vince Radice
<vhradice@cfl.rr.com> napisa?:
> ? ?As for my question about b43-fwcutter, do I do something with this or is
> it done behind the scenes by a driver?

No idea what are you asking about. What do you mean by "I do
something"? What are you trying to achieve?
b43 driver won't work this this card. b43-fwcutter is firmware
extractor for b43 driver. It's not needed for this card.


> ? ?Also, some have had success with the STA drivers. ?I believe that I have
> installed them with yum. ?How can I tell if they are being used? ?Can I
> somehow tie those drivers with my usb adapter?

I don't think STA supports fullmac devices (like your USB one). You
can list loaded modules by "lsmod"
hint:
lsmod | grep wl
lsmod | grep b43
etc.

lspci also shows currently used driver when using verbose mode (lspci -v):
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 AGN
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 48
        Memory at d1500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        (...)
        Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

P.S.
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Please, bottom-post.

-- 
Rafa?

wireless problem

[Simon Baker]

hi,just wondering if you can help me with a problem ive been having
when running the backtrack 3 program.i have windows 7 on my hp
pavillion laptop and my built-in wifi works fine but when i boot
backtrack it wont work.i looked in my hp wireless assistant and it
says i have 4 network adapter problems.could this be anything to do
with it? ive tried to update the drivers which it says to do but for
some reason it cant update them so im in limbo when it comes to fixing
the adapter issues

Re: wireless problem

[Gábor Stefanik]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Simon Baker
<simon.baker7@virginmedia.com> wrote:
> hi,just wondering if you can help me with a problem ive been having
> when running the backtrack 3 program.i have windows 7 on my hp
> pavillion laptop and my built-in wifi works fine but when i boot
> backtrack it wont work.i looked in my hp wireless assistant and it
> says i have 4 network adapter problems.could this be anything to do
> with it? ive tried to update the drivers which it says to do but for
> some reason it cant update them so im in limbo when it comes to fixing
> the adapter issues
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BackTrack 3 is very old (has 2.6.21 kernel, no longer
supported/maintained). Please test with BackTrack 4.

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