Re: kernel versus broadcom wlan
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 16:36:00 -0700, wauhugo AT yahoo DOT com wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
>> Try to load the module manually (as root) with verbose messages:
>>
>> modprobe -v b43
>>
>> Hopefully that will give us a clue.
>>
>>
> There is NO OUTPUT from the "-v" option. But the module gets loaded.
I think no output with "-v" means that the module was already loaded
before the command was run. Maybe you could try to unload it ("modprobe
-rv b43") and then reload it. If that does not lead to any meaningful
messages in the syslog or the dmesg output then I really don't know how
to proceed. Looking at the source code, it seems that there should
be a message about loading the firmware for both success and failure.
Are you sure that your custom kernel is OK?
> # lsmod |grep 43 :
> b43 119976 0
> ssb 39428 1 b43
> rfkill 12816 1 b43
> pcmcia 45720 2 b43,ssb
> firmware_class 15232 2 43,pcmcia
> led_class 10120 1 b43
> input_polldev 9872 1 b43
> pcmcia_core 46500 2 b43,pcmcia
> mac80211 132236 1 b43
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> this looks quite correct, but it doesn't do any visible thing.
So /sbin/ifconfig still only shows one network interface (and lo)? What
happens if you run "udevtrigger" with the module loaded, do you get any
new entries in the persistent-net-rules file?
> OH, an other thing: About every second boot hangs after the message:
> "Synchronizing the System Clock" (or something like this)
This should not happen, but I have no idea if it is related to your
problems with the broadcom chip.
> Could this probably be cause by some fault while trying to install and
> activate the firmware?
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