Wireless Problem

Wireless Problem

[Vince Radice]

Hi,

     I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter 
working.  I have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to 
figure out what is happening.  I have attached two files.  One contains 
the output from dmesg.  The other has the output from several commands 
as requested in the doc.

     I have the latest of all of the commonly used software - 
ndiswrapper, Broadcom STA, Fedora FC16 with all updates, b43-fwcutter, 
and a lot more that I can't remember.

     The pc I am using has an ethernet connection.  I am trying to get 
the wireless working there.  I am not able to successfully connect to my 
home wireless network.  I can somewhat connect by manually assigning the 
IP address.  It will connect and assign an IP address but I can't do 
anything.  If I try ping, I get host unreachable.

     My question stems from a lack of what to do.  Looking at your 
documentation, I see references to b43-fwcutter.  Do I have to do 
something with that program? I have read what it does, but no where have 
I read anything about me having to do something to get the firmware.

     Another question is which drivers should I be using - Broadcom STA, 
b43, or ndiswrapper with windows drivers for xp?  I have tried to get 
all of these working at some point.  I may have tried running several at 
the same time as I don't know how to check what is being used.  I can 
list what is installed.

     Should I open a thread some place?  If so, I was thinking the 
Networking forum at Fedora.  I found your site listed in one recent post 
there.  I could add to it.

     Thanks in advance for any help and advice you give.

Vince Radice
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Wireless Problem

[Rafał Miłecki]

2012/2/9 Vince Radice <vhradice@cfl.rr.com>:
> ? ?I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter working. ?I
> have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to figure out what
> is happening. ?I have attached two files. ?One contains the output from
> dmesg. ?The other has the output from several commands as requested in the
> doc.

This is BCM43231, fullmac device, nothing to-be-covered by b43 driver.
The driver that may support this chipset is brcmfmac, but for now only
support for BCM4329, BCM4330 and BCM43236 was recently-added. I think
I remember Arend saying they are not working on support for BCM43231
for now. I may be wrong however.

We could try hacking support for this chipset by just extracting
firmware for BCM43231 and adding proper USB ID in brcmfmac. I don't
think anyone is working on this.

-- 
Rafa?

Wireless Problem

[Arend van Spriel]

On 02/09/2012 08:17 PM, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote:
> 2012/2/9 Vince Radice <vhradice@cfl.rr.com>:
>>    I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter working.  I
>> have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to figure out what
>> is happening.  I have attached two files.  One contains the output from
>> dmesg.  The other has the output from several commands as requested in the
>> doc.
> 
> This is BCM43231, fullmac device, nothing to-be-covered by b43 driver.
> The driver that may support this chipset is brcmfmac, but for now only
> support for BCM4329, BCM4330 and BCM43236 was recently-added. I think
> I remember Arend saying they are not working on support for BCM43231
> for now. I may be wrong however.

You are correct.

> We could try hacking support for this chipset by just extracting
> firmware for BCM43231 and adding proper USB ID in brcmfmac. I don't
> think anyone is working on this.
> 

I believe the API between driver and firmware is different so expect
problems doing that. I can inform just how different.

Gr. AvS

Wireless Problem

[Vince Radice]

Thank you for the quick response.  Some of the posts that I looked at 
indicated success with what was available, but they never came back with 
the proper list of what worked.

     As for my question about b43-fwcutter, do I do something with this 
or is it done behind the scenes by a driver?

     Also, some have had success with the STA drivers.  I believe that I 
have installed them with yum.  How can I tell if they are being used?  
Can I somehow tie those drivers with my usb adapter?

Again, thanks,

Vince Radice

On 02/09/2012 02:38 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 08:17 PM, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote:
>> 2012/2/9 Vince Radice<vhradice@cfl.rr.com>:
>>>     I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter working.  I
>>> have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to figure out what
>>> is happening.  I have attached two files.  One contains the output from
>>> dmesg.  The other has the output from several commands as requested in the
>>> doc.
>> This is BCM43231, fullmac device, nothing to-be-covered by b43 driver.
>> The driver that may support this chipset is brcmfmac, but for now only
>> support for BCM4329, BCM4330 and BCM43236 was recently-added. I think
>> I remember Arend saying they are not working on support for BCM43231
>> for now. I may be wrong however.
> You are correct.
>
>> We could try hacking support for this chipset by just extracting
>> firmware for BCM43231 and adding proper USB ID in brcmfmac. I don't
>> think anyone is working on this.
>>
> I believe the API between driver and firmware is different so expect
> problems doing that. I can inform just how different.
>
> Gr. AvS
>
>

Wireless Problem

[Rafał Miłecki]

W dniu 9 lutego 2012 21:55 u?ytkownik Vince Radice
<vhradice@cfl.rr.com> napisa?:
> ? ?As for my question about b43-fwcutter, do I do something with this or is
> it done behind the scenes by a driver?

No idea what are you asking about. What do you mean by "I do
something"? What are you trying to achieve?
b43 driver won't work this this card. b43-fwcutter is firmware
extractor for b43 driver. It's not needed for this card.


> ? ?Also, some have had success with the STA drivers. ?I believe that I have
> installed them with yum. ?How can I tell if they are being used? ?Can I
> somehow tie those drivers with my usb adapter?

I don't think STA supports fullmac devices (like your USB one). You
can list loaded modules by "lsmod"
hint:
lsmod | grep wl
lsmod | grep b43
etc.

lspci also shows currently used driver when using verbose mode (lspci -v):
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 AGN
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 48
        Memory at d1500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        (...)
        Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

P.S.
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Please, bottom-post.

-- 
Rafa?