Re: Trouble getting bcm43xx driver to work

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

hello experts,
 
 Aaron at Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 07:28:11AM CET wrote:
 > I am close to having the bcm43xx driver working but I am now stuck and could 
 > really do with some pointers.
 > 
 > THE SHORT VERSION:
 > 1. I have successfully built and installed bcm43xx, ieee80211softmac and 
 > bcm43xx-fwcutter (one error extracting firmware file bcm43xx_microcode11.fw). 
 > These are the latest daily snapshots (20060102)
 
 I have same problem and when I run 
 
 krachsna:~# ifconfig eth1 up
 SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
 
 
 
 here is iwconfig output mebe it can be useful
 
 krachsna:~# iwconfig 
 lo        no wireless extensions.
 
 eth0      no wireless extensions.
 
 sit0      no wireless extensions.
 
 eth1      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
           Mode:Managed  Access Point: Invalid   Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   
           Tx-Power=off   
           RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
           Encryption key:off
 
 
 I have the newest softmac a bcm driver sources form today 3.01.2006
 
 thanks in advance
 
 > 2. I can manually "ifconfig ethX up" the wireless interface and see my very 
 > open wireless network with "iwlist ethX scan". 
 > 
 > 3. SoftMac seems to associate (from dmesg output).
 > 
 > 4. dhclient ethX fails to get an IP address but I can manually set an IP 
 > address (in the correct range) with ifconfig.
 > 
 > 5. I can not ping my wireless AP/router. Ping returns "Destination Host 
 > Unreachable" even though my route table looks OK:
 > "Kernel IP routing table
 > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
 > 192.168.73.0    *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth2"

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