Hi,
I have a linksys WPC54GS pcmcia wifi card. lspci details below. I tried
it with the latest firmware and Ubuntu gutsy's 2.6.22-10-generic and
2.6.22-11-generic kernels. With the former, I got WPA working
intermittently, but not stably (ie it'd die and need the driver reloading).
With the latter, I could only get it working unencrypted (I didn't debug in
detail, but it seemed like it didn't associate so presumaby the link never
came up -- I can give logs and more detail if it's useful).
I went onto the IRC channel and noted the suggestion that I try the
wireless-dev tree (2.6.23-rc4). So I did and I'm glad to say successfully.
I'm using it now and have been for the past 6-8 hours on and off without
any reboot or problems. I guess it's possible it would also work with the
current 2.6.23-rc6 development kernel. Perhaps I'll try and check that in
due course.
A couple of things worth mentioning.
1. I've been getting tonnes of syslog errors like this:
Sep 16 21:46:59 tilly kernel: [ 5171.869169] CCMP: decrypt failed:
STA=00:09:5b:d2:f0:2f
Sep 16 21:46:59 tilly kernel: [ 5171.872336] CCMP: decrypt failed:
STA=00:18:84:11:78:d6
Sep 16 21:47:05 tilly kernel: [ 5174.178449] printk: 122 messages
suppressed.
which all seem to correspond to packets tranferred between my AP and
a second netgear laptop with an atheros chipset. So it's not a worry.
ifconfig shows a collossal packet drop count, which seems to
approximately equal the number of packets sent+rec'd by the other
laptop so I guess it's the same error as above. Perhaps there's a good
debug reason for these printk statements, but they have their cost on the
machine.
2. The quoted signal strength is 50% even when I have the AP and card right
next to each other. It doesn't bother me, but I wonder if it's correct
or not.
I wrote up a howto for Ubuntu here as I suspect others might be interested
to try it out.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/Broadcom_BCM4318_%5bAirForce_One_54g%5d_%28Native_Driver%29#preview
Gavin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci -v -s 02:00.0
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g]
802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Linksys Unknown device 0049
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at 24000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci -vn -s 02:00.0
02:00.0 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02)
Subsystem: 1737:0049
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at 24000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
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