Re: Broadcom 4318 not working with bleeding edge kernels

Hin-Tak Leung
2009-10-21T22:43:58Z

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:29:17 -0400
> Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 21:47 -0400, Celejar wrote:
>>
>> > Oct 17 19:44:19 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: Trying to associate
>> > with 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 (SSID='cranford' freq=2437 MHz) Oct 17
>> > 19:44:19 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: Association request to the
>> > driver failed
>>
>> Since the message is from wpa_supplicant, it must be something between
>> wpa_supplicant and mac80211. I don't think any code in b43 is
>> involved.
>>
>> Perhaps you should include some information about wpa_supplicant, i.e.
>> its version and the command line. Please try the latest
>> wpa_supplicant. Please try both wext and nl80211 drivers. That would
>> help understand the extent of the problem.
>
> Version is 0.6.9, from the Debian package version 0.6.9.3. I don't
> know the exact command line, since I've been invoking it through the
> Debian ifupdown scripts. I haven't been specifying a backend, and the
> Debian documentation states that wext is used in that case.

'ps -lax -w -w' should show the full command line of currently running
processes. Read the documentation of ps.

also, have a look inside /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log (or wherever
Debian puts it) for the log.

> I have been playing with it some more, and it sometimes works, and
> sometimes doesn't. The only absolutely consistent pattern that I've
> seen is that (in my limited testing) it seems to always work right
> after unloading / reloading the driver (b43) (or a fresh boot).
>
> As I mentioned, I've been using the Debian ifupdown scripts. I have
> now tried running wpa_supplicant directly, and so far it has worked
> consistently, with a very minimal, mostly default config:
>
> 'wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/wpa.conf'
>
> where wpa.conf contains:
>
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
>
> network={
> ssid="my-ssid"
> psk="my passphrase"
> }
>
>
> So at this point, I guess the problem is something that I need to
> report to Debian, some sort of bugginess with their scripts. Thanks
> for the help ;)
>
> Celejar
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