Broadcom 4303 HP Pavilion zv5000

From: "Jesús Vidal Panalés" <jesusvpct@vodafone.es>
To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Broadcom 4303 HP Pavilion zv5000
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:51:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ED76A51.6090600@vodafone.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA1CDDF.6010403@vodafone.es>

El vie 21 oct 2011 21:54:07 CEST, Jes?s Vidal Panal?s escribi?:
> 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.
>
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Any new suggestion about what can i do or test? Thanks.