Broadcom 4303 HP Pavilion zv5000

Jesús Vidal Panalés
2011-10-21T19:54:07Z

El vie 21 oct 2011 14:14:17 CEST, Rafa? Mi?ecki escribi?:
> W dniu 21 pa?dziernika 2011 14:09 u?ytkownik Jes?s Vidal Panal?s
> <jesusvpct@vodafone.es> napisa?:
>> El vie 21 oct 2011 12:53:39 CEST, Rafa? Mi?ecki escribi?:
>>>
>>> 2011/10/20 Jes?s Vidal Panal?s<jesusvpct@vodafone.es>:
>>>>
>>>> El jue 20 oct 2011 01:29:45 CEST, Larry Finger escribi?:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/19/2011 04:14 PM, Jes?s Vidal Panal?s wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, i think that i've got ndiswrapper working with the windows
>>>>>> driver,
>>>>>> but i
>>>>>> have the same problem, is not connection. Running wpa_suplicant (using
>>>>>> right
>>>>>> configuration) i've got this output:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
>>>>>> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
>>>>>> Trying to associate with 20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 (SSID='WIFI-Tux' freq=2442
>>>>>> MHz)
>>>>>> Association request to the driver failed
>>>>>> Associated with 00:00:00:00:00:00
>>>>>> CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 reason=0
>>>>>> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
>>>>>> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
>>>>>> Trying to associate with 20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 (SSID='WIFI-Tux' freq=2442
>>>>>> MHz)
>>>>>> Association request to the driver failed
>>>>>> Associated with 00:00:00:00:00:00
>>>>>> CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 reason=0
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Does wireshark on Win 7 show any packets from your device with
>>>>> ndiswrapper?
>>>>>
>>>>> My hotel has wifi and I will be able to see Email daily.
>>>>>
>>>>> Larry
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't see any packets either.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot guys for debugging this. AFAIU:
>>> 1) Linux + b43 = RX ok, TX broken
>>> 2) Linux + ndis = RX ok, TX broken
>>> 3) XP = RX ok, TX ok
>>>
>>> Jes?s: I could try debugging if we got any working Linux driver. Even
>>> ndiswrapper is alright, we could grab MMIO dumps from ndis na b43 and
>>> compare them.
>>> Could you try using some different Windows driver with ndiswrapper?
>>> Maybe some another one will work with this BCM4301 device?
>>>
>>
>> I don't know what do you mean, do you mean to use other bcm4301 windows
>> driver? or bcm43xx windows driver?
>
> The Windows driver you've loaded in ndiswrapper don't seem to work.
> Could you try finding another (newer?) one and use it with
> ndiswrapper?
> I don't know the name of Windows driver, no idea if it's called
> bcm4301, bcm43xx or whatever else.
>

i can't find any new driver for my laptop. I've tried with this one
http://www.x-drivers.com/catalog/drivers/wireless_networks/companies/broadcom/models/bcm94301/17599.html
but on ndisgtk says that hardware is not present, so i think that this
driver is not good for my laptop.