Is this card supported?

[Gábor Stefanik]

2010/9/25  <ikorot at earthlink.net>:
> Rafal,
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
>>Sent: Sep 24, 2010 2:27 PM
>>To: ikorot at earthlink.net
>>Cc: b43-dev at lists.infradead.org
>>Subject: Re: Is this card supported?
>>
>>2010/9/24  <ikorot at earthlink.net>:
>>> Hi, ALL,
>>> This is an information about the hardware:
>>>
>>> IgorsGentooWork OE # uname -a
>>> Linux IgorsGentooWork 2.6.32-gentoo-r7 #4 Mon Jul 5 13:42:27 PDT 2010 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> IgorsGentooWork OE # lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
>>> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
>>> 02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
>>>
>>> Is this device supported?
>>
>>http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
>
> Can you then explain this:
>
> IgorsGentooWork OE # ifconfig wlan0 up
> IgorsGentooWork OE # iwconfig wlan0 essid "GoogleWiFi"
> Cannot read /proc/net/wireless

Let me guess: procfs is not mounted.

> Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
>    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
> IgorsGentooWork OE # man iwconfig
> IgorsGentooWork OE # iwconfig wlan0 scan
> iwconfig: unknown command "scan"
> IgorsGentooWork OE # ifconfig wlan0 scan
> scan: Unknown host
> ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information.
> IgorsGentooWork OE # man ifconfig
> IgorsGentooWork OE # ifconfig -a
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:22:aa:cc:69
>          inet addr:192.168.2.141  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>          inet6 addr: fe80::214:22ff:feaa:cc69/64 Scope:Link
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:2403559 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:2084228 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:2352559614 (2.1 GiB)  TX bytes:766927573 (731.3 MiB)
>          Interrupt:9
>
> 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:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>          RX bytes:2592 (2.5 KiB)  TX bytes:2592 (2.5 KiB)
>
> sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
>          NOARP  MTU:1480  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:0
>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>
> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:ce:1d:9f:32
>          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)
>
> dmesg says:
>
> IgorsGentooWork OE # dmesg | tail
> [4995866.378984] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
> [4995866.379706] PM: Adding info for No Bus:ssb0:0
> [4995866.407533] PM: Removing info for No Bus:ssb0:0
> [4995866.534044] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
> [4995866.566088] b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized
> [4995866.566283] b43-phy0 debug: 32-bit DMA initialized
> [4995866.566357] b43-phy0 debug: QoS enabled
> [4995866.577067] b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started
> [4995866.577076] b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2
> [4995866.577633] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
>
> Thank you.
>
> P.S.: Just so that nobody will be bothered I will add the ML to
> whitelist.. ;-)
>
>>
>>--
>>Rafał
>
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