Re: [ANN] b43 LP-PHY support (BCM4310/4312/4315) working (partially)!

[Mark Huijgen <mark.sf.net@huijgen.tk>]

Gábor Stefanik wrote:
> 2009/8/19 Mark Huijgen <mark.sf.net@huijgen.tk>:
>   
>> Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>>     
>>> Mark, could you produce a dmesg output with the new firmware, patches
>>> applied, and channel set to 1? Post the output of dmesg after scanning
>>> & probably associating, if possible. (Scan/assoc may produce messages
>>> in dmesg.)
>>>
>>>       
>> I tested this already, but with default chan set to 1, I cannot get the
>> interface up.
>> This is somewhere in my mail, but it got a bit messy after I noticed
>> that after
>> changing some of the code my modules got installed in another directory
>> (-dirty).
>>
>> I just restarted the notebook, but now the results are different again...
>>
>> New firmware, with patches applied and default channel 7:
>> [   72.160057] b43-phy1: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01
>> 00:50:23)
>> [   72.163484] b43-phy1 debug: RC calib: Failed to switch to channel 7,
>> error = -5
>> [   72.168100] b43-phy1 debug: Switch to init channel failed, error = -5.
>>
>> Recompile module with default chan 1, patches still applied and new
>> firmware,
>> # modprobe -r b43 && modprobe b43 verbose=3 && ifconfig wlan0 up
>>
>> [  430.259877] b43-phy2 debug: Switch to init channel failed, error = -5.
>>
>> Recompile again, but with default chan back to 7, still patched and
>> still new firmware.
>> So same as in first situation:
>> # modprobe -r b43 && modprobe b43 verbose=3 && ifconfig wlan0 up
>>
>> [  524.748062] b43-phy3 debug: Chip initialized
>>
>> And I can get my interface up and working!
>>
>> Without this procedure I have not been able to get a working chip. Seems
>> the partially
>> initialized state after each try, allows the next try to get a bit
>> further. And together with
>> the default channel switching between 1 and 7, I get a working chip, but
>> a chip that does
>> not seem to be able to find my AP thats on channel 1.
>>
>> If I now change default chan to 1 again, I am getting the same error as
>> in step 2 above.
>> I have not been able to get the interface up with default chan set to 1.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>     
>
> What do you see in dmesg after running a scan?
>   
After step 2, interface cannot be brought up:
# iw dev wlan0 scan
command failed: Network is down (-100)

No extra output in dmesg

After step 3 (so with default chan 7 again), interface comes up and I
can scan:
# iw dev wlan0 scan
<<list of scan results>>

No extra output generated in dmesg.

I must add that I do not have debugging messages enabled for any
mac80211 related options, only for b43 module.

Mark