From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas D. Dean Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:48:51 -0800 Subject: Debian 6 b43 not working Message-ID: <512285A3.40209@speakeasy.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org I have a HP ZD7000 laptop with a BCM4306. I see no errors, but, nothing seems to happen when I try to bring wlan0 up. > uname -a Linux zd7000 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 09:49:36 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux > lspci -vnn 02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN [103c:12f4] Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 21 Memory at d2004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] > cat b43install.log wget http://bues.ch/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-017.tar.bz2 tar xjf b43-fwcutter-017.tar.bz2 cd b43-fwcutter-017 make sudo make install cd .. export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware" wget http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 tar xjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" \ broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o sudo modprobe -r b43 sudo modprobe b43 > sudo cat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback ## wlan auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid "tddhome" wpa-psk "xxxxxxxx" # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 #NetworkManager#iface eth0 inet dhcp > sudo ifup wlan0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1.1-P1 Copyright 2004-2010 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:52:82:8a Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:52:82:8a Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. > sudo iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off > sudo ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:c0:9f:41:f9:a1 inet addr:192.168.2.4 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:9fff:fe41:f9a1/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:64005 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16332 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:14999473 (14.3 MiB) TX bytes:2583343 (2.4 MiB) Interrupt:20 Base address:0x3000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2398 (2.3 KiB) TX bytes:2398 (2.3 KiB) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4b:52:82:8a UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) wlan0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4b:52:82:8a inet addr:169.254.7.215 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 What additional information may I provide? Did I install the correct b43 version? Tom Dean