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 21:55:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ED7E9BF.4080202@vodafone.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED76A51.6090600@vodafone.es>

El 01/12/11 12:51, Jes?s Vidal Panal?s escribi?:
> 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.
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I've tried, but it's not working, in fact, i have a kernel freeze...