Is this card supported?

Tue Sep 28 04:26:14 EDT 2010

2010/9/28  <ikorot at earthlink.net>:
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> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d at gmail.com>
>>Sent: Sep 27, 2010 5:29 PM
>>To: ikorot at earthlink.net
>>Cc: b43-dev at lists.infradead.org
>>Subject: Re: Is this card supported?
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>>On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:55 AM,  <ikorot at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Hi,
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>>> -----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?
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>>>>2010/9/25  <ikorot at earthlink.net>:
>>>>> Rafal,
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>>>>>
>>>>> -----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?
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>>>>>>http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you then explain this:
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>>>>> IgorsGentooWork OE # ifconfig wlan0 up
>>>>> IgorsGentooWork OE # iwconfig wlan0 essid "GoogleWiFi"
>>>>> Cannot read /proc/net/wireless
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>>>>Let me guess: procfs is not mounted.
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>>> You guessed wrong: procfs is mounted:
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>>> /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?
>>>
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>>What do you get if you do "cat /proc/net/wireless"?
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> IgorsGentooWork wxWidgets-2.8.9 # cat /proc/net/wireless
> cat: /proc/net/wireless: No such file or directory

Looks like wext is disabled in your kernel config. Enable it, or try
using "iw" to connect instead of "iwconfig" (iw uses nl80211 instead
of wext).

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>>> Thank you.
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>>>>> 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

The scan command is "iw dev wlan0 scan" (using nl80211) or "iwlist
wlan0 scan" (using wext).

>>>>> 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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