Re: [Feedback needed] "brcmsmac" wifi driver in testing
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:46:56 +0000 (UTC), Camaleón writes:
> Our cell phone provider has given us a netbook that embeds a broadcom
> 4313 wifi chipset¹.
>
> This card seems to be supported by the new -and open source- brcmsmac
> driver² (still in a staging development) but I am having problems to
> associate it with my AP.
>
> All seems going fine (wlan0 interface is created and NM sees the AP) but
> I only get "authentication with [ap-mac] timed out" in dmesg and nothing
> more. Other USB cards I have tested (based on rt73 and rt2xxx chipsets)
> are working okay so I guess the AP is not the problem here but the driver.
>
> I wonder if someone is currently using this driver and what are his/her
> experiences.
>
> ¹http://wiki.debian.org/brcm80211
> ²http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211
I'm using brcmsmac since 1 year without a problem.
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$ lspci -vnn | grep Broadcom -A 5
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device [144f:7179]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f3800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: brcmsmac
$ lsmod | grep -E brcm
brcmsmac 485123 0
mac80211 152890 1 brcmsmac
cfg80211 98676 2 brcmsmac,mac80211
$ uname -r
2.6.39.3-vy.20110710
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BTW, if I were you, instead of relying on nm, I'd manually try to
connect to the AP. That is,
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# ifconfig wlan0 up
# emacs /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
# wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0
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Now check the wpa_supplicant debug outputs. Moreover, if you can see a
valid mac addr in the "Access Point" field of the "iwconfig wlan0"
output, Wi-Fi assoc is ok and you're struggling with the encryption
part.
Best.
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