From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?SmVzw7pzIFZpZGFsIFBhbmFsw6lz?= Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:21:18 +0200 Subject: Broadcom 4303 HP Pavilion zv5000 In-Reply-To: References: <4E9BE7A2.4060703@vodafone.es> Message-ID: <4E9C39DE.6040303@vodafone.es> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org El lun 17 oct 2011 11:41:49 CEST, Rafa? Mi?ecki escribi?: > 2011/10/17 Jes?s Vidal Panal?s: >> Hello, i have an older computer from my father (HP Pavilion zv5168ea) and i >> decided to install a Xubuntu distro (tried 11.10, now 11.04) for my personal >> use, but i can't get a wireless connection to my router (i'm using >> WPA-personal encryption but tried with open and nothing). The driver is >> installed, i can see wifi essid on NetworkManager but the connection is >> never carried out. I've installed firmware-b43legacy-installer because it >> has the driver for this card but nothing... > > [minor note] It's BCM4301, see dmesg or updated > http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/14e4/4301 > > >> A piece of dmesg output: >> >> [ 1491.019304] b43-pci-bridge 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNK3] -> GSI >> 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 >> [ 1491.086827] b43legacy-phy0: Broadcom 4301 WLAN found >> [ 1491.108067] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 0, Type 1, Revision 4 >> [ 1491.108093] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version >> 0x2050, Revision 2 >> [ 1491.132056] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Radio initialized >> [ 1491.432090] b43legacy-phy0: Loading firmware version 0x127, patch level >> 14 (2005-04-18 02:36:27) >> [ 1491.556324] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Chip initialized >> [ 1491.556589] b43legacy-phy0 debug: 30-bit DMA initialized >> [ 1491.558904] Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0::tx >> [ 1491.558943] Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0::rx >> [ 1491.558975] Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0::radio >> [ 1491.559001] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started >> [ 1491.564107] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2 > > Looks fine. > > >> [ 1555.492498] wlan0: direct probe to 20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 (try 1/3) >> [ 1555.692058] wlan0: direct probe to 20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 (try 2/3) >> [ 1555.892059] wlan0: direct probe to 20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 (try 3/3) >> [ 1556.092059] wlan0: direct probe to 20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 timed out > > Not sure what you could do to debug this. As quite try you can swith to PIO > rmmod b43legacy > modprobe b43legacy pio=1 > This make unavailable wifi at all. It only makes light on and off wifi led constantly. > If that's not going to help, you could try to dump wireless traffic > with another machine. It would be good idea to at least check, if your > BCM4301 sends any packet at all. > How can i do this? Wireshark? I need some help to know how to do this if it's possible. > Also, have you tried connecting to any other networks? Would be also > nice to try. > > Well, at this moment i can't do this, i need someone with another router to try connect. My router is an Asus RT-N16. >> [ 1882.024387] b43legacy-phy0 warning: Unexpected value for chanstat (0xC00) > > The channel info reported by firmware isn't valid. > 1) PHY type is not set: > #define B43legacy_RX_CHAN_PHYTYPE 0x0003 /* PHY type */ > 2) Channel is not set: > #define B43legacy_RX_CHAN_ID 0x03FC /* Channel ID */ > > This shouldn't be critical, as it seems only single packet was > corrupted. However it may point some general problem with hardware > calibration, or sth. > Ok, so this is not important.