Re: Broadcom 43340

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2015-03-17 at 21:01 +0000, Jürgen Bausa wrote:
> Arend van Spriel <arend@...> writes:
> 
> > 
> > On 03/15/15 21:38, Jürgen Bausa wrote:
> > >
> > > would be nice, if you could make it clear.
> > >
> > 
> > Maybe you need to mount it. This is what I found [1]:
> > 
> > $ sudo mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
> > 
> 
> Thanks, that worked. Now I have firmware and nvram-file and the driver seems
> to load ok. At least I have an interface wlan0.
> 
> However, I am not able to connect.Network-manager just says "interface is
> being set up ..." forever. I have no idea howto debug this. In the other
> post you said that the nl80211 driver should be used instead of wext. I
> found that nl80211 is the default for network-manager. So, whats going wrong
> here?

Could you provide more NetworkManager logs?  They should look like this;
where do your logs stop?

NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): Activation: starting connection 'my wifi'
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): Activation: Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): Activation: Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): device state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none') [30 40 0]
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): Activation: Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): Activation: Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): Activation: Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): device state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none') [40 50 0]
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): Activation: (wifi) connection 'my wifi' has security, and secrets exist.  No new secrets needed.
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  Config: added 'ssid' value 'my wifi'
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1'
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'WPA-PSK'
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  Config: added 'psk' value '<omitted>'
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  Config: added 'proto' value 'WPA RSN'
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): Activation: Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  Config: set interface ap_scan to 1
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant interface state: inactive -> scanning
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> associating
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant interface state: associating -> associated
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant interface state: associated -> 4-way handshake
NetworkManager[1949]: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant interface state: 4-way handshake -> completed

Dan