Bug#637240: brcmsmac: "firmware bug" warning when connecting, hang when unloading brcmsmac driver unless near AP

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

2011/8/13 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
> Camaleón wrote:
>
>> I don't know what's going on here but this has started working as soon
>> as I brought the netbook next to the AP:
> [...]
>> I think this bug can be closed, I know the brcmsmac is a stage driver
>> and so we can experience some problems with it. Anyway, I will keep an
>> eye on it.
>
> What is staging for, if not for finding bugs like this before they
> affect more people?  Please send a summary of your findings to
> linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, cc-ing devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
> and
>
> M:      Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>
> M:      Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>
> M:      Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>
> M:      Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
> M:      Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
> M:      Kan Yan <kanyan@broadcom.com>
>
> (list taken from MAINTAINERS in the source tree), and this bug log.
>
> Thanks very much for your work, and I hope it can result in a fix
> soon.

I would really like to test this further but I dunno from where to start.

What I've find out is that the wireless card starts working as soon as
I put the netbook next to the AP, then NetworkManager starts its
detection routine and associates fine with the AP. After that, wifi
connection keeps stable and available regardless I possition the
netbook.

I will write to the suggested mailing lists (thanks for that!) and
also to the mentioned devels and hope this can be solved soon.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón