Problems with bcm4306...

["Wouter Amerijckx" <wouter.amerijckx@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I'm using kernel 2.6.17-rc3 with wl_apsta.o firmware (also tried AppleAirport2)
on  a 15" Powerbook G4 (PowerBook5,6) for my Broadcom 4306 chip.
I tried this using 54M & 11M rates on both WEP-protected and
unprotected networks and I always get the same result:

$ sudo ifconfig eth2 up
$ sudo iwlist eth2 scan
eth2      Scan completed :
         Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:66:51:B7:0D
                   ESSID:"X-Network"
                   Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                   Mode:Master
                   Channel:11
                   Encryption key:on
                   Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                   Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54
                   Quality=100/100  Signal level=-152 dBm
                   Extra: Last beacon: 100ms ago

$ sudo iwconfig eth2 channel 11 rate 11M key XXXX-XXXX-XX essid "X-Network"
$ dmesg
SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:0f:66:51:b7:0d

$ iwevent (running during this test)
Waiting for Wireless Events from interfaces...
19:37:57.828306   eth2     Scan request completed
19:39:03.827612   eth2     Set Frequency=24.62 kHz (Channel 11)
19:39:03.828188   eth2     Set Encryption key:****-****-**
19:39:03.836797   eth2     Set ESSID:"X-Network"
19:39:04.176008   eth2     Scan request completed
19:39:04.185163   eth2     Custom driver event:authenticated
19:39:04.186364   eth2     Custom driver event:associating failed

$ sudo iwconfig eth2
eth2      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:"X-Network"  Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
         Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.462 GHz  Access Point: Invalid
         Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm
         RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Encryption key:969B-64B2-3B   Security mode:open
         Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

$ sudo ifconfig eth2
eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:24:92:D3:89
         UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:29 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:2820 (2.7 KiB)  TX bytes:1975 (1.9 KiB)
         Interrupt:52 Base address:0x8000

$ sudo dhcpcd eth2 (nothing happens + no ip received)
$ sudo ifconfig eth2
eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:24:92:D3:89
         BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:117 errors:0 dropped:29 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:7020 (6.8 KiB)  TX bytes:1975 (1.9 KiB)
         Interrupt:52 Base address:0x8000

$ sudo iwlist eth2 scan (interface goes down)
eth2      Interface doesn't support scanning : No such device

Any help is appreciated...
Thanks

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Wouter Amerijckx