Is this card supported?

Mon Sep 27 20:29:29 EDT 2010

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:55 AM,  <ikorot at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d at gmail.com>
>>Sent: Sep 25, 2010 6:23 PM
>>To: ikorot at earthlink.net
>>Cc: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>, b43-dev at lists.infradead.org
>>Subject: Re: Is this card supported?
>>
>>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.
>
> You guessed wrong: procfs is mounted:
>
> /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
> udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620)
> shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85)
> binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>
> Any other ideas?
>

What do you get if you do "cat /proc/net/wireless"?

> Thank you.
>
>>
>>> 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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