Broadcom 4303 HP Pavilion zv5000

[Jesús Vidal Panalés]

El 17/10/11 10:30, Jesús Vidal Panalés escribió:
> Hello, i have an older computer from my father (HP Pavilion zv5168ea) 
> and i decided to install a Xubuntu distro (tried 11.10, now 11.04) for 
> my personal use, but i can't get a wireless connection to my router 
> (i'm using WPA-personal encryption but tried with open and nothing). 
> The driver is installed, i can see wifi essid on NetworkManager but 
> the connection is never carried out. I've installed 
> firmware-b43legacy-installer because it has the driver for this card 
> but nothing...
>
> This is the output of lspci -vnn (only wireless card part)
>
> 02:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4303 
> 802.11b Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4301] (rev 02)
>     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:12f3]
>     Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
>     Memory at e0104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
>     Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
>     Kernel modules: ssb
>
>
> This is rfkill list output:
>
> 1: phy0: Wireless LAN
>     Soft blocked: no
>     Hard blocked: no
>
>
> lsmod output:
>
> Module                  Size  Used by
> b43legacy             127415  0
> ssb                    45942  1 b43legacy
> mac80211              257001  1 b43legacy
> cfg80211              156212  2 b43legacy,mac80211
> snd_intel8x0           33213  3
> arc4                   12473  2
> snd_ac97_codec        105614  1 snd_intel8x0
> ac97_bus               12642  1 snd_ac97_codec
> snd_pcm                80042  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
> nouveau               621970  2
> snd_seq_midi           13132  0
> snd_rawmidi            25269  1 snd_seq_midi
> ttm                    65184  1 nouveau
> snd_seq_midi_event     14475  1 snd_seq_midi
> pcmcia                 39671  0
> snd_seq                51291  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
> drm_kms_helper         40745  1 nouveau
> snd_timer              28659  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
> snd_seq_device         14110  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
> drm                   184164  4 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
> yenta_socket           27230  0
> ppdev                  12849  0
> joydev                 17322  0
> pcmcia_rsrc            18292  1 yenta_socket
> i2c_algo_bit           13184  1 nouveau
> snd                    55295  13 
> snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
> pcmcia_core            21505  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,pcmcia_rsrc
> soundcore              12600  1 snd
> snd_page_alloc         14073  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> i2c_nforce2            12906  0
> k8temp                 12872  0
> psmouse                73312  0
> shpchp                 32345  0
> serio_raw              12990  0
> parport_pc             32111  1
> video                  18951  1 nouveau
> lp                     13349  0
> parport                36746  3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
> firewire_ohci          31504  0
> 8139too                23208  0
> 8139cp                 22497  0
> pata_amd               13762  2
> firewire_core          56138  1 firewire_ohci
> crc_itu_t              12627  1 firewire_core
>
>
> A piece of dmesg output:
>
> [ 1491.019304] b43-pci-bridge 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A ->  Link[LNK3] 
> ->  GSI 11 (level, low) ->  IRQ 11
> [ 1491.086827] b43legacy-phy0: Broadcom 4301 WLAN found
> [ 1491.108067] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 0, Type 1, 
> Revision 4
> [ 1491.108093] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 
> 0x2050, Revision 2
> [ 1491.132056] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Radio initialized
> [ 1491.432090] b43legacy-phy0: Loading firmware version 0x127, patch 
> level 14 (2005-04-18 02:36:27)
> [ 1491.556324] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Chip initialized
> [ 1491.556589] b43legacy-phy0 debug: 30-bit DMA initialized
> [ 1491.558904] Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0::tx
> [ 1491.558943] Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0::rx
> [ 1491.558975] Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0::radio
> [ 1491.559001] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started
> [ 1491.564107] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2
> [ 1555.492498] wlan0: direct probe to 20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 (try 1/3)
> [ 1555.692058] wlan0: direct probe to 20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 (try 2/3)
> [ 1555.892059] wlan0: direct probe to 20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 (try 3/3)
> [ 1556.092059] wlan0: direct probe to 20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 timed out
> [ 1882.024387] b43legacy-phy0 warning: Unexpected value for chanstat 
> (0xC00)
>
>
> Any suggestion? Thanks in advance.
>
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>
Running Wireshark on this laptop and capturing wireless interface does 
not show traffic at all. So there is something wrong.