Re: bcm43xx finally working, with encryption too!!!

[Milan Toth <milan@toth-online.com>]

Milan Toth at Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:49:41PM CET wrote:
> Ruben at Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:01:37PM CET wrote:
> > 
> > At Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:22:52 +0100, Milan Toth wrote:
> > > 
> > > > well i have got eventually the AirPort card working WITH WEP SECURITY ON!!!
> > > 
> > > should I only update bcm43xx and softmac source and WEP will
> > > work form me?
> > 
> > Yes, I used the svn from bcm43xx (you could also use a snapshot) and a
> > snapshot of softmac.  You just need to disable ieee80211 in the
> > (vanilla) kernel, since the modified ieee80211 is included in the
> > softmac snapshot.  A "make install" will install the needed kernel
> > modules in /lib/modules for both softmac and bcm43xx.
> 
> OK. So I download a 2.6.15.1 from kernel.org disbale Generic
> IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack and try to compile softmac-snapshot
> but I'v got error that I dont have IEEE 802.11 compiled into
> kernel. So I enbale it compile softmac with this warnning: 
> 
> *** Warning: "wireless_send_event" [/home/data/src/softmac-snapshot/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac.ko] undefined!
> 
> then:
> export SOFTMAC_DIR=/home/data/src/softmac-snapshot
> 
> and compile the bcm43xx driver
> with this warnnings: 
> *** Warning: "free_ieee80211softmac"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> *** Warning: "ieee80211softmac_stop"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> *** Warning: "ieee80211softmac_wx_set_genie"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> *** Warning: "ieee80211softmac_wx_set_wap"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> *** Warning: "ieee80211softmac_wx_get_essid"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> *** Warning: "ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> *** Warning: "ieee80211softmac_wx_get_wap"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> *** Warning: "ieee80211softmac_wx_set_essid"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> *** Warning: "ieee80211softmac_start"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> *** Warning: "ieee80211softmac_wx_get_genie"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> *** Warning: "ieee80211softmac_wx_get_scan_results"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> *** Warning: "ieee80211_wx_get_auth"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> *** Warning: "ieee80211softmac_wx_trigger_scan"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> *** Warning: "alloc_ieee80211softmac"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> *** Warning: "ieee80211_wx_set_auth"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> *** Warning: "ieee80211softmac_wx_set_rate"
> [/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver/bcm43xx.ko] undefined!
> 
> and finaly when I try to modprobe the bcm4300 I'v got this
> error:
> [milan@krachsna]-[1]-[/home/data/src/bcm43xx/driver] sudo
> modprobe bcm43xx 
> WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211softmac
> (/lib/modules/2.6.15.1-krachsna-2/kernel/drivers/net/ieee80211softmac/ieee80211softmac.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> FATAL: Error inserting bcm43xx
> (/lib/modules/2.6.15.1-krachsna-2/kernel/drivers/net/bcm43xx/bcm43xx.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> 
> 
> help me please :(

sorry I forgot to attach dmesg output:
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation
<jketreno@linux.intel.com>
ieee80211softmac: Unknown symbol wireless_send_event
bcm43xx: Unknown symbol ieee80211softmac_wx_set_rate
bcm43xx: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211softmac
bcm43xx: Unknown symbol ieee80211softmac_wx_trigger_scan
bcm43xx: Unknown symbol ieee80211softmac_wx_get_scan_results
bcm43xx: Unknown symbol ieee80211softmac_wx_get_genie
bcm43xx: Unknown symbol ieee80211softmac_start
bcm43xx: Unknown symbol ieee80211softmac_wx_set_essid
bcm43xx: Unknown symbol ieee80211softmac_wx_get_wap
bcm43xx: Unknown symbol ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate
bcm43xx: Unknown symbol ieee80211softmac_wx_get_essid
bcm43xx: Unknown symbol ieee80211softmac_wx_set_wap
bcm43xx: Unknown symbol ieee80211softmac_wx_set_genie
bcm43xx: Unknown symbol ieee80211softmac_stop
bcm43xx: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211softmac



> > 
> > Then you do something like the following:
> > ---------------
> > #!/bin/bash
> > ifconfig eth1 down
> > ifconfig eth1 up
> > iwconfig eth1 rate 11M
> > iwconfig eth1 essid fifi
> > iwconfig eth1 key 1230123012301230123012302
> > dhclient eth1
> > ---------------
> > 
> > Adapt everything to your configuration of course, maybe a higher rate
> > than 11M is possible according to circumstances, but it works very
> > well in my case.  A higher rate gives me trouble with dhcp.  But for
> > the rest it is very stable. (and now the connection works immediately)
> > 
> 
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