Broadcom 4303 HP Pavilion zv5000

Rafał Miłecki
2011-10-21T12:14:17Z

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.

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Rafa?