Re: airport stops working on debian side of computer
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 08:06:01PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
> I am running a ppc mac mini with the broadcom chip (bcm4306); am running
> debian unstable with kernel 2.6.26-1; have just updated with apt-get
> hoping this would ix the problem but it didn't. My wireless suddenly
> stopped working--using airport extreme--but still works fine on the mac
> side of the computer. /var/log/messages shows all the broadcom components
> being loaded but shows link not ready when brought up. cat /proc/net/dev
> shows wlan0_rename (also a eth1) but all zeros. The relevant part of lspci
> -knn shows:
>
> 0001:10:12.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03)
> Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
> Kernel modules: ssb
>
> I did make the firmware changes as instructed with the 2.6.25 kernel
> and this problem didn't occur when I changed to 2.6.26.
> Has anybody had
> this happen and are there other tests I should run or other
> logs in which I need to look to find out wt is wrong?
Could you please include the output of dmesg (only relevant parts), ifconfig -a and
iwconfig.
The wlan0_rename above you mention could indicate that something with persistent device name
rules of udev could be wrong. You could try to delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
and reboot. After that all your network devices will have new persistent names assigned by udev.
What mechanism do you use to configure your wlan (/etc/network/interfaces, network-manager, ...)?
Are you using any kind of encription on the wireless link?
In general your card should be well supported by the b43 kernel module. So I suspect
you have an error in your configuration.
Gaudenz
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