Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-05-02 Thread Francis Galiegue
2008/5/2 Francesco Gringoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just a question (for Francis): how does the AP work? Have you tried very > stressing tests with traffic crossing the AP? The AP works fine for now. When it has just started up, though, the first association sometimes drops immediately and has to b

Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-05-01 Thread Francesco Gringoli
Just a question (for Francis): how does the AP work? Have you tried very stressing tests with traffic crossing the AP? We do have problems when the channel is saturated, it seems that the BCM device acting as AP stops sending beacons and the BSS goes down, we need to reconfigure everything

Fwd: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-05-01 Thread Stefanik Gábor
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Francis Galiegue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/1 Francis Galiegue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 2008/5/1 Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > > unencrypted AP --> success; > > > > [WPA] --> segfault > > > > > > > > > > http://j

Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-05-01 Thread Francis Galiegue
2008/5/1 Francis Galiegue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/5/1 Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > unencrypted AP --> success; > > > [WPA] --> segfault > > > > > > http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/2008-05-01-00:32/023-mac80211-fix-debugfs-key.patch > > > > Bett

Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-05-01 Thread Francis Galiegue
2008/5/1 Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > unencrypted AP --> success; > > [WPA] --> segfault > > > http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/2008-05-01-00:32/023-mac80211-fix-debugfs-key.patch > Better, but not there yet... At least now it doesn't segfault. I ran again h

Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-04-30 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 03:01 +0200, Francis Galiegue wrote: > > > > > > > > No, "you only need *-allow-ap-vlan-modes.patch for current hostapd git", > > as > > > SERIES says. I think that would be > > > > > http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/026-allow-ap-vlan-modes.patch

Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-04-30 Thread Francis Galiegue
> > > > > No, "you only need *-allow-ap-vlan-modes.patch for current hostapd git", as > > SERIES says. I think that would be > > > http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/026-allow-ap-vlan-modes.patch. > > > > OK, it's starting to get a little more clear now. > > I've git-

Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-04-29 Thread Francis Galiegue
2008/4/28 Stefanik Gábor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] > > No, "you only need *-allow-ap-vlan-modes.patch for current hostapd git", as > SERIES says. I think that would be > http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/026-allow-ap-vlan-modes.patch. > OK, it's starting to get a little m

Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-04-28 Thread Francis Galiegue
2008/4/28 Francis Galiegue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [...] Should I take it that NPUB > means Not PUBlished? > It does :( I have somewhat overlooked the start of this "series" file, which explicitly mentions this fact. This URL however: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general

Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-04-28 Thread Francis Galiegue
2008/4/28 Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] > > > > Now, I have a problem :( > > > > From file > http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/series: > > > > Does that mean that these patches are merged somewhere? > > Could could bother to read the series file. > > johan

Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-04-28 Thread Johannes Berg
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 20:06 +0200, Francis Galiegue wrote: > [...] > > > > > > There are some patches to enable AP functionality at > > > http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/ > > > > > > I haven't tried it myself and I don't know any details. > > > > > > > Hmm, lots of stuff in there

Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-04-28 Thread Francis Galiegue
[...] > > > > There are some patches to enable AP functionality at > > http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/ > > > > I haven't tried it myself and I don't know any details. > > > > Hmm, lots of stuff in there... I'll dig into this and let you know the > outcome. > Now, I have a prob

Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-04-28 Thread Francis Galiegue
2008/4/28 Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 11:50 +0200, Francis Galiegue wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Here is my setup: > > > > - Gentoo 2007.0, x86; > > - a Broadcom BCM4308 rev 3 chipset (PCI card), PCI ID 14e4:4320; > > Actually, according my /usr/share/hwda

Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-04-28 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 11:50 +0200, Francis Galiegue wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Here is my setup: > > - Gentoo 2007.0, x86; > - a Broadcom BCM4308 rev 3 chipset (PCI card), PCI ID 14e4:4320; Actually, according my /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids file, which came with Fedora development, and should be

BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-04-28 Thread Francis Galiegue
Hello everyone, Here is my setup: - Gentoo 2007.0, x86; - a Broadcom BCM4308 rev 3 chipset (PCI card), PCI ID 14e4:4320; - vanilla 2.6.25 kernel; - firwmare downloaded and "cut" as instructed on the b43 page at linuxwireless.org. The machine on which the card is also has a GBit Ethernet interfac