bcm4322 success (WPA2)!

[Clemens Helfmeier]

Hello Larry,

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 01:30:36PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 02/20/2011 12:25 PM, Clemens Helfmeier wrote:
>> Hello Developers,
>> 
>> I have just tried the current wireless-testing git tree with my bcm4322 
>> device:
>> 
>> # lshw
>> 0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 
>> 802.11a/b/g/n
>>     Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:432b] (rev 01)
>> 
>> # dmesg shows:
>> [   11.358762] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4322 WLAN found (core revision 16) [   
>> 11.400231] b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 8, Type 4, Revision 4 [   
>> 11.400257] b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2056, 
>> Revision 3
>> 
>> I had to apply this patch to b43-fwcutter in order to extract the firmware: 
>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b43-dev/2010-July/000225.html
>> 
>> Using WPA2, the connection is very stable, no connection break downs so far.
>> 
>> My dmesg log shows quite a lot of error messages (approx every 7 seconds in 
>> idle and more often when traffic is high):
>> [ 4015.044435] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
>> [ 4021.910720] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
>> [ 4028.866892] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
>> 
>> Thanks for your efforts to get my hardware working!
> 
> The attached patch should fix the PHY transmission errors, which happens 
> whenever the rate control code tries to set an OFDM rate. With the patch, 
> those rates will not work, but no errors will be printed.
> 
> You can also lock the rate at 11M (iwconfig wlan0 rate 11M) to get rid of 
> those errors.

Locking the rate at 11M makes the driver not output any more error messages 
here ,too.
Thanks for your work!

Best regards,
 Clemens