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Re: bcm43xx 2.6.17.7 associating only once



On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:04:50PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 02:20:59PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > Now that 2.6.17-rc5 is out I gave it a test run.
> > Unfortunately the wireless driver bcm43xx does not work,
> > it not been working with -rc3 either.
> 
> Another testrun with 2.6.17.7 reveals, there are still problems
> with the driver for me. Ben wrote that only rate 11M should work
> reliably and there might be updates for 2.6.18 kernels comming.
> 
> Problem: associating is not working well enough.
>          It seems to work once after a reboot which is
> 	 not enough to use dhcpclient.
> 
> Am I the only person with this problem?

It seems to be the case. :(
Any pointer on what would be the next steps of debugging?

> Is there a patch for 2.6.17.x fixing this part of bcm43xx?
> I saw quite a few patches for bcm43xx in 2.6.18-rc2,
> does someone have an idea if they address the problem?
> One patch seems to be related to only one specific AP.
> 
> Powerbook5,6 
> Debian Sarge with backported wireless-tools 28-1
> 
> Here is a typical run, the first association works,
> but then it allways fails:

> Jul 27 00:04:45 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy
> Jul 27 00:04:45 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: cannot associate without being authen
> ticated, requested authentication
> Jul 27 00:04:45 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy
> 24:9c:85:89.
> Jul 27 00:04:45 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port
>  67 interval 5
> Jul 27 00:04:45 localhost dhclient: receive_packet failed on eth1: Network is down

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