Re: bcm43xx finally working, with encryption too!!!
Broadcom 43xx driver & softmac working here on a 2004 Albook 15"
I had to set 'iwconfig eth1 rate 11M' to even ping my router - it seems
that this card will not operate at full 54M speed.
DHCP does not seem to be working - I read reports of people running
scans before running dhclient eth1 but this does not seem to work for
me. I am using a static IP.
Also - I had to manually set my AP MAC with iwconfig ap XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
because some how iwconfig eth1 reported Access Point: Invalid, although
the ESSID was correctly set.
PROBLEM - connection drops every few minutes - i have to ifdown / ifup
eth1 and add a default route back into my routing table to get my
internet connection back online. Anyone noticed this? Suggestions?
I have not tested WEP / WPA.
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 23:24 +0200, Emmanuel Galatoulas wrote:
> Ruben wrote:
>
> >At Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:39:01 +1100, Aaron Kerr wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Thanks. I will try waiting a few minutes after setting up the connection.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I timed it this morning, and it only worked after 4 minutes. It's
> >possible this has something to do with my access point.
> >Authentication and association with the AP happens almost immediately.
> >
> >
> >
> >>Your delays when running route or netstat could be a DNS lookup failure.
> >>Try "netstat -rn" which will not try to translate IP addresses to names.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Thanks (and thanks to Michael)... that was indeed the reason.
> >
> >Ruben
> >
> >Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
> >
> >
> >
> >
> well i have got eventually the AirPort card working WITH WEP SECURITY ON!!!
> i guess it was basically a driver issue cos using the latest bcm43xx driver
> (actually bcm43xx-20060115.tar.bz) as welll as today's softmac-snapshot
> both the driver and the modules were compiled smoothly (despite some
> warning messages in bcm43xx!)
> Perhaps it was also a matter of the AppleAirport2 firmware file
> ie. the MacOS X file
> /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirPort2.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleAirPort2
> the latest one from MacOS X 10.4.4 did not produce the error messages
> that earlier version did
> when running fwcutter!
>
> At any rate, the thing is that the modules run OK, encryotion does work
> (at the moment using WEP key 64-bit hex)
> and also without the nasty hang ups and so on that I observed with the
> earlier versions
> (eg, if you were deactivating the wired interface eth0 and then were
> trying to activate
> the wireless one, the system could hang, or evev if you were just
> unplugging the ethernet plug!!!)
>
> so a big thanks to the community serving this wonderful work
> one more proof of what a power the community is!!!
>
> (and yes this was the last main reason for still using MacOS X , sorry!!!!)
> (OK, if only the sound drivers was working fully too!!!!)
>
> (PS. this mail is of course being sent wirelessly!!!)
>
>
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