From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: "Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Make N-PHY support experimental
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:11:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CFEBF3C.7030205@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikp9ErFopLZVmXMjN3tXF2L62SwEEcujKeOBLYC@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/07/2010 04:57 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
> 2010/12/7 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>:
>> Finally, thanks for Larry and Francesco I got b43 working with BCM4328 chipset!
>
> Do you mean BCM4321 (14e4:4328)? BCM4328 is AFAIK handled by brcmfmac.
>
>>
>> It's not perfectly stable yet, but scanning and associating to open network
>> works! It has to be tested, improved, there are some PHY errors from time to
>> time, but generally it works :)
With my device:
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n
[14e4:4328] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN
Controller [103c:1366]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Excerpt of log:
[ 1184.780924] b43-pci-bridge 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LK4E] -> GSI 20
(level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 1184.780945] b43-pci-bridge 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 1184.800166] ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x13, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1184.800176] ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x0C, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1184.800184] ssb: Core 2 found: PCI-E (cc 0x820, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1184.800192] ssb: Core 3 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x0D, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1184.800200] ssb: Core 4 found: USB 1.1 Host (cc 0x817, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1184.820062] ssb: Switching to ChipCommon core, index 0
[ 1184.820202] ssb: chipcommon status is 0x0
[ 1184.820211] ssb: SPROM offset is 0x1000
[ 1184.828653] ssb: SPROM revision 5 detected.
[ 1184.848037] ssb: Switching to PCI-E core, index 2
[ 1184.848659] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:04:00.0
[ 1184.897825] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4321 WLAN found (core revision 12)
[ 1184.916062] ssb: Switching to IEEE 802.11 core, index 1
[ 1184.940038] b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 5, Type 4, Revision 2
[ 1184.940064] b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2055, Revision 4
[ 1184.975224] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[ 1184.978455] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[ 1184.980387] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[ 1185.256050] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 508.1107 (2009-06-26 19:16:02)
[ 1185.256059] ssb: Switching to ChipCommon core, index 0
[ 1185.256123] ssb: Switching to IEEE 802.11 core, index 1
[ 1185.332045] b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized
[ 1185.333522] b43-phy0 debug: 64-bit DMA initialized
[ 1185.333570] b43-phy0 debug: QoS enabled
[ 1185.353497] b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started
[ 1185.353512] b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2
[ 1188.041790] b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 0,
mac: c0:3f:0e:be:2b:45
[ 1191.134922] b43-phy0 debug: Disabling hardware based encryption for keyidx:
0, mac: c0:3f:0e:be:2b:45
[ 1192.823490] b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 0,
mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[ 1192.824306] b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 1,
mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[ 1192.824630] b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 2,
mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[ 1192.824989] b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 3,
mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[ 1194.896063] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
It connects and authenticates with WEP, but not with WPA2. It appears to be
limited to CCK rates. Setting a rate above 11Mb/s results in complete failure.
Transmit rate is 4.6 Mb/s at 11M. All in all, not bad for first life.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-07 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-07 20:55 [PATCH 0/4] Make N-PHY support experimental Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-07 20:55 ` [PATCH 1/4] b43: N-PHY: silence warnings Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-07 20:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] b43: set TMS to work with current band width for N-PHY Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-07 21:08 ` Michael Büsch
2010-12-09 14:12 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 14:13 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 14:19 ` Michael Büsch
2010-12-09 14:23 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 14:28 ` Michael Büsch
2010-12-09 14:41 ` Michael Büsch
2010-12-07 20:55 ` [PATCH 3/4] b43: fix split of N-PHY devices into supported and not (based on PHY rev) Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-07 20:56 ` [PATCH 4/4] b43: rename config option for N-PHY, drop BROKEN Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-07 21:04 ` [PATCH 0/4] Make N-PHY support experimental Johannes Berg
2010-12-07 22:57 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-12-07 23:11 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2010-12-08 3:37 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-09 14:11 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 15:20 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-09 15:25 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-09 15:28 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 15:33 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-09 15:37 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 16:03 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-10 3:52 ` Jon Saul
2010-12-10 4:05 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-09 16:10 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-08 15:15 ` b43 N PHY status report Larry Finger
2010-12-10 18:30 ` Francesco Gringoli
2010-12-10 18:47 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-10 19:02 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-10 19:04 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-12-10 19:08 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-21 9:25 ` David Woodhouse
2010-12-21 9:30 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-21 14:30 ` Larry Finger
[not found] ` <AANLkTik1712si67qH6fBSLzu8iWcjqnX=ntENh0W8UmU@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-10 19:00 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-09 14:09 ` [PATCH 0/4] Make N-PHY support experimental Rafał Miłecki
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4CFEBF3C.7030205@lwfinger.net \
--to=larry.finger@lwfinger.net \
--cc=b43-dev@lists.infradead.org \
--cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linville@tuxdriver.com \
--cc=netrolller.3d@gmail.com \
--cc=zajec5@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).