Re: Lost wireless device?
Larry, I know I am waking up an old thread, but I have a development I thought was interesting and I need some guidance. This device: 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01) quit showing up in fedora 7 and never appeared in fedora 8, however, I just installed opensuse 10.3 on the second drive and it has reappeared. I did the standard update after the initial install and it disappeared again. The original kernel was replaced by this one, 2.6.22.13-0.3-default This is what I am thinking, I am going to cp the /lib/modules/2.6.22.13-0.3-default to a safe location and then do a scratch install of opensuse 10.3 and maybe compare the kernels and their modules. Is this possible and would it yield the reason why this device exists under one kernel and not another? Shoudl I be talking to the kernel devel list or maybe opensuse devel list? It seems that nothing is physically wrong with the machine if one kernel sees the device and not another. Also, just a side note, I did an install of vista to factory state and as soon as the nvidia430 updates were applied the radio light went off. Any thoughts. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: Lost wireless device?
On 9/24/07, Joshua Blocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the future if they offer a DOS flash utility then it's easier to > use FreeDOS or if winFlash ReactOS though i have not tried the latter. > > Does it even showup it Vista? > I searched the site for a dos version of the update utility with no luck. I am going to set that drive aside for time being and if necessary just plug it back in. To answer the question, no it does not show up in windows. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: Lost wireless device?
> I did not personally want to reinstall vista, but if necessary I can > move some files around and make the second hard drive the primary for > an installation. > Just a status update on my problem. I took the unused hd out of my wifes machine and placed it in the primary slot of mine, reinstalled vista from the recovery dvd and reflashed the bios. The system still does not have the device listed. I do not understand how the bridge could just disappear without some kind of catastrophic failure of the main board. I mean if it was a module problem then reverting back to the previous working kernel the problem should have gone away. Every other component is working flawlessly. I am going to keep searching the kernel lists for a possible solution. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: Lost wireless device?
> I am almost ready to write to the Linux Kernel Mailing List about this > problem, but a couple of > things to check. > > (1) Have you reset the BIOS to the default values? If your BIOS is like mine, > there aren't many > things to be set, but something could have been corrupted. > Yes, I did reset the bios to the defaults. And you are correct, there are only 3 or 4 items that can be reset. > (2) If #1 didn't help, we should probably consider reflashing the BIOS. > I have considered reflashing the bios, but I would have to clear some drive space and reinstall vista. The only flashing program I have found on HP.com is the winflash utility that is designed to run under windows vista, they also have an xp version as well. I did not personally want to reinstall vista, but if necessary I can move some files around and make the second hard drive the primary for an installation. Thanks -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: Lost wireless device?
Ok, I did a clean boot of both machines with the dmesg -c command being applied just before the reboot. So far the only thing that I see different is this line: Allocate Port Service[:00:03.0:pcie03] This is in the dmesg output from my wifes working machine and the output of lspci ties this entry to the id number of the wlan card. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: Lost wireless device?
Ok, to revisit this issue for a little while. I powered down my lappy, removed the pcie wireless card and then place that card in my wife's identical machine and behold it shows up as the correct device and functions. I placed the card from my wife's machine in my machine and booted up, did lspci and it does not appear in the list of device. I have searched the bios thoroughly and have found no option to turn on/off the wireless card. The only thing I have is a switch on the front of the machine that will turn off the radio. I have also regressed back to the previous kernel that worked with my system and is the one on my wife's computer. Kernel Version 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 Is there something in the b43/bcm43xx code or firmware that could have disabled the bios support for the card? Any thoughts or ideas. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: Lost wireless device?
> When you reply, always "Reply All". This exchange should be on the list. > > I don't know what might have happened to your device. Have you powered it > down and pulled the > battery to let it completely reset? > I apologize for the reply issue. Yes, I powered the machine down completely and gave it about 2 minutes unplugged with the battery out. I opened the case and looked at the card and it does not appear to be burned or any caps ruptured. I am considering moving the card from my wife's machine and then put it in my just for a test. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Lost wireless device?
Hello, I just upgraded fedora 7 to the 2.6.22.5-76 kernel last night. After the update the ndiswrapper quit working. So I thought I would give it another shot with the native driver. I downloaded the version 3 and 4 firmwares and tried the first time with the b43 driver which did not work, after modprobing the driver the dmesg out indicated that the radio was turned off. I then tried the bcm43xx driver with the version 3 firmware and it output the same thing the radio was turned off. I then reinstalled the ndiswrapper and installed the driver that I had been using, when I did ndiswrapper -l it indicated that the driver was installed with an alternate driver of ssb. Now the wireless still does not work and when I used to see lspci output 4311 at 00:03:0 now the device is not listed by lspci, it is like the device has just been removed from the machine. The machine is an HP DV9208NR with the Dell wlan mini pcie device. I have looked in the bios and there are not options to turn it off or on. Is it possible that the driver somehow turned the card off completely or maybe some other explanation. Thanks for any thoughts or assistance. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Lost wireless device?
Hello, I just upgraded fedora 7 to the 2.6.22.5-76 kernel last night. After the update the ndiswrapper quit working. So I thought I would give it another shot with the native driver. I downloaded the version 3 and 4 firmwares and tried the first time with the b43 driver which did not work, after modprobing the driver the dmesg out indicated that the radio was turned off. I then tried the bcm43xx driver with the version 3 firmware and it output the same thing the radio was turned off. I then reinstalled the ndiswrapper and installed the driver that I had been using, when I did ndiswrapper -l it indicated that the driver was installed with an alternate driver of ssb. Now the wireless still does not work and when I used to see lspci output 4311 at 00:03:0 now the device is not listed by lspci, it is like the device has just been removed from the machine. The machine is an HP DV9208NR with the Dell wlan mini pcie device. I have looked in the bios and there are not options to turn it off or on. Is it possible that the driver somehow turned the card off completely or maybe some other explanation. Thanks for any thoughts or assistance. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Which module
Ok, I have been trying to make heads or tails of it, which driver do I need to use for the broadcom 4311 dell wlan 1390. Is it b43 or bcm43xx? I have just upgraded a fedora 7 installation to 2.6.22.4-65 and want to give the native driver a try again. Thanks in advance for any assistance. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: bcm 4311 w/ pci id 1374 unsupported phy (analog 4, type 2, rev 9)
On 7/29/07, Mansour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great, and regarding the acpi, I have to boot with pci=noacpi. Am I wrong ? > > > Joseph Jezak wrote: > > Mansour wrote: > >> I have the same laptop HP (dv9000) model DV9408ca with min PCI card. > >> extra info is attached. Does this mean that mine is supported? > >> > >> I am getting : > >> bcm43xx: Unsupported 80211 core revision 13 > > I have a DV9208NR and I have had no acpi problems. However, I have to boot with the pci=nommconf in order for the ndiswrapper to drive the broadcom 4311. I periodically black list the ndiswrapper and enable the bcm43xx-80211 driver and this past week was the first time I could get the native driver to associate with my router using wep encryption. I could not get more than 11m out of it though. If I tried to force it to any rate greater than 11 then it would associate, but it would not allow any through put. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: wlan 1390, broadcom bcm4311
On 6/4/07, Ehud Gavron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In your private reply you show great progress (but you didn't CC the > list on that one so make reference to it only). > > Since I didn't know where you were going (ndiswrapper or bcm43xx) I also > didn't mention that you are running the F7 2.6.21 kernel... and that > kernel needs patching from Larry's stuff at > ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/. > > You might try downloading the kernel source RPM... patching it... and > then building that. It IS a pain (and no I haven't done it for this > one). I did try 2.6.22-rc3 but it lacks the bcm43xx_mac80211 out of the > box and I didn't want to revert to softmac. > > Ehud I have the source package installed already, as I have built my nvidia drivers. I will read up on the patching that you reference. I am going to give it a rest tonight, 32 hours working this weekend and I out of it. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: wlan 1390, broadcom bcm4311
Ok, I spoke to soon. The system slowed down to a crawl and then finally the connection was lost. I will continue to try and capture pertinent information. I will post back when I find something that may be useful. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
wlan 1390, broadcom bcm4311
Hello and greetings to the list members. I have been using opensuse 10.2 with the ndiswrapper on a 2.6.18 kernel and this worked. I just recently converted this laptop to fedora 7 with a 2.6.21 kernel. I have found that ndiswrapper will not drive the card because of the 4k stacks. I have been trying to figure out the bcm43xx_mac80211 and I keep coming up short. Here is what I have tried and some of the responses; I have read that I need the ver 4 firmware so I downloaded it from here, http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o. and when I modprobe the driver I find this line in the dmesg output bcm43xx_mac80211: Loading firmware version 351.126 (2006-07-29 05:54:02) Does this look like the correct firmware version? I am not sure! Here is the interesting part, if I bring up wlan0 and do a iwlist scanning I see my cell along with about 6 others in the neighborhood, but I keep getting these messages in the dmesg output: bcm43xx_mac80211: Adding Interface type 2 bcm43xx_mac80211: Loading firmware version 351.126 (2006-07-29 05:54:02) ssb: Switching to ChipCommon core, index 0 ssb: Switching to IEEE 802.11 core, index 1 bcm43xx_mac80211: Radio turned on bcm43xx_mac80211: Radio enabled by hardware bcm43xx_mac80211: !WARNING! Idle-TSSI phy->cur_idle_tssi measuring failed. (cur=26, tgt=62). Disabling TX power adjustment. bcm43xx_mac80211: Chip initialized bcm43xx_mac80211: 32-bit DMA initialized bcm43xx_mac80211: Wireless interface started ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready bcm43xx_mac80211: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 0, mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02 wlan0: RX authentication from 00:11:95:2c:26:02 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02 wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:11:95:2c:26:02 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=3) wlan0: associated ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready wlan0: no IPv6 routers present wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02 - assume out of range wlan0: No STA entry for own AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02 wlan0: No STA entry for own AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02 wlan0: No STA entry for own AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02 wlan0: No STA entry for own AP 00:11:95:2c:26:02 Also, when I bring up the link I get the following messages from the ifup command: Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. This is the output of lspci -vn 03:00.0 0280: 14e4:4311 (rev 01) Subsystem: 103c:1363 Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 21 Memory at b800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0 I know that I am close, I can get a scanning of the cells around my area. Just not quite there yet. Oh, I tried the router with encryption off and the system wide open, as well as my usual wep encryption. Still no joy. The system is an HP Pavillion DV9208NR and the pcie card is listed a dell wlan 1390. Any thoughts, suggestions, or hints would be greatly appreciated. If I can supply any further information I will be glad to. I am also will to help with the debugging and correction of any potential problems. It would not be the first time I have torn down and put back together a system. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
