Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

On Wed, 02 May 2007 the mental interface of
William told:

> Hi folks,
>
> I've been struggling days to try making airport extreme work, only in
> vain..At present, it could scan wireless network successfully. And
> this is how i do it:
>
> # iwlist eth1 scan
> # iwconfig eth1 essid "A213"
> # iwconfig eth1 rate auto
> # iwconfig eth1 key off
> # dhclient eth1

Did you used bcm43xx-fwcutter for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware?

bcm43xx out of 2.6.21 is working like a charme here:

eth1      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:"BLAFSELDIRASEL"  Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:18
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption
          key:WPA2 Security mode:open
          Link Quality=86/100  Signal level=-43 dBm  Noise level=-68 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Rate=54 Mb/s should be true. I don't know how to verify (benchmark)
this? There are features to measure in the Linville tree, though.
But I can't get the git pull from today to compile:

WARNING: vmlinux: '__div64_32' exported twice. Previous export was
in vmlinux
WARNING: "tcf_destroy_chain" [net/mac80211/mac80211.ko] undefined!
make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
make: *** [modules] Error 2

Elimar


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