Broadcom 4303 HP Pavilion zv5000

Jesús Vidal Panalés jesusvpct at vodafone.es
Fri Oct 21 08:09:26 EDT 2011


El vie 21 oct 2011 12:53:39 CEST, Rafał Miłecki escribió:
> 2011/10/20 Jesús Vidal Panalés<jesusvpct at vodafone.es>:
>> El jue 20 oct 2011 01:29:45 CEST, Larry Finger escribió:
>>>
>>> On 10/19/2011 04:14 PM, Jesús Vidal Panalés wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well, i think that i've got ndiswrapper working with the windows driver,
>>>> but i
>>>> have the same problem, is not connection. Running wpa_suplicant (using
>>>> right
>>>> configuration) i've got this output:
>>>>
>>>> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
>>>> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
>>>> Trying to associate with 20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 (SSID='WIFI-Tux' freq=2442
>>>> MHz)
>>>> Association request to the driver failed
>>>> Associated with 00:00:00:00:00:00
>>>> CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 reason=0
>>>> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
>>>> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
>>>> Trying to associate with 20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 (SSID='WIFI-Tux' freq=2442
>>>> MHz)
>>>> Association request to the driver failed
>>>> Associated with 00:00:00:00:00:00
>>>> CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=20:cf:30:ce:0e:c7 reason=0
>>>>
>>>
>>> Does wireshark on Win 7 show any packets from your device with
>>> ndiswrapper?
>>>
>>> My hotel has wifi and I will be able to see Email daily.
>>>
>>> Larry
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I don't see any packets either.
>
> Thanks a lot guys for debugging this. AFAIU:
> 1) Linux + b43 = RX ok, TX broken
> 2) Linux + ndis = RX ok, TX broken
> 3) XP = RX ok, TX ok
>
> Jesús: I could try debugging if we got any working Linux driver. Even
> ndiswrapper is alright, we could grab MMIO dumps from ndis na b43 and
> compare them.
> Could you try using some different Windows driver with ndiswrapper?
> Maybe some another one will work with this BCM4301 device?
>

I don't know what do you mean, do you mean to use other bcm4301 windows 
driver? or bcm43xx windows driver?



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