Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18
He,
sorry forgot my kernel/hardware description:
% uname -a
Linux powerbook 2.6.20.7jcm #1 Sun Apr 22 14:40:21 CEST 2007 ppc GNU/Linux
% lspvi -vv #(only the broadcom part)
0001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. AirPort Extreme
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 16
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 52
Region 0: Memory at 80084000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
Cheers and a nice weekend.
BTW: I would love so much to have wlan running here and not use the 20m cable to be able to sit online in the kitchen and in the living room.
Joerg
On Sat, 5 May 2007 19:46:37 +0200, jmaier.shove-it.de <joerg.maier@shove-it.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i am still having trouble with bcm43xx. Had some usb wlan stick running.
> Unfortunately gave it away as i had bcm43xx running the first time with
> another access point. Since i have my own asus wl500gp router with its own
> openwrt linux running on it i cannot connect with bcm43xx while i can with
> macos.
>
> I tried like
>
> % ifconfig eth2 up
> % iwconfig eth2 essid <essid> key <key> rate 11M
> % dhclient eth2
>
> I switched on debugging in softmac and bcm43xx and dmesg shows sth like:
>
> bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0xf5, pl 0xcc (2004-01-21 19:04:18)
> bcm43xx: Radio turned on
> bcm43xx: Chip initialized
> bcm43xx: 30-bit DMA initialized
> bcm43xx: Keys cleared
> bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:hw_random
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready
> SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
> SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up?
> bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0
> SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 14 channels starting with channel 1
> SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
> SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 14 channels starting with channel 1
> SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
> SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 14 channels starting with channel 1
> SoftMAC: Unable to find matching network after scan!
> SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
> bcm43xx: set security called, .active_key = 0, .level = 1, .enabled = 1,
> .encrypt = 1
> SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 14 channels starting with channel 1
> SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to 00:17:31:bf:73:54
> SoftMAC: Cannot associate without being authenticated, requested
> authentication
> SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:17:31:bf:73:54.
> SoftMAC: Open Authentication with 00:17:31:bf:73:54 failed, error code: 13
>
> Does anybody know whats going wrong?
>
> % iwlist eth2 scanning
> shows my network as well does kismet run without any issues, only the
> connect fails =(.
>
> Any help is very welcome. I don't have eny firewall rules, all iptables
> chains are open.
>
> If i set wep to off only for test i see the same in dmesg (after unloading
> the module and restarting modproge, ifconfig .. up, iwconfig...
> bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0xf5, pl 0xcc (2004-01-21 19:04:18)
> bcm43xx: Radio turned on
> bcm43xx: Chip initialized
> bcm43xx: 30-bit DMA initialized
> bcm43xx: Keys cleared
> bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:hw_random
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready
> SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
> SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up?
> bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0
> SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 14 channels starting with channel 1
> SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to 00:17:31:bf:73:54
> SoftMAC: Cannot associate without being authenticated, requested
> authentication
> SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:17:31:bf:73:54.
> SoftMAC: Open Authentication with 00:17:31:bf:73:54 failed, error code: 13
> SoftMAC: Already associating or associated to 00:17:31:bf:73:54
>
> Thanks, frustrtated,
> Joerg
>
> On 5 May 2007 16:45:39 GMT, Jack Malmostoso <jackmalmostoso@freesurf.ch>
> wrote:
>> On Sat, 05 May 2007 16:00:08 +0200, William Xu wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, it seems that's the cause. After completely removing MOL, the
>>> wireless network finally comes up, for the first time!
>>
>> I guess it's not fair to call this a bug, but maybe it could be useful
> to
>> introduce in the MOL documentation a setup guide to enable networking in
>> MOL without breaking it in the guest system. I am not expert enough with
>> iptables to really debug what happened, but I couldn't get the network
> to
>> work even by flushing all iptables rules (iptables -F). The only way was
>> to setup the network as desired and then reboot. No way to make it work
>> without a reboot.
>>
>> Then I realized I didn't really need networking in MOL, so I just
>> uninstalled the thing.
>>
>> Maybe a wishlist priority bug could do.
>>
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Glad I could help :)
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards, Jack
>> Linux User #264449
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>>
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