broadcom wireless and some other issue

[MaxHalz]

I tried to put a command as described: dmesg | grep Broadcom but nothing apeared. no error, no statement, nothing.
Also tried to do dmesg | grep eth1 but also nothing. I might be missing something or I need to put an ESSID first or something. Very noobish of me what can I do.
I read parts on slackbook about network and wireless but cant find the right commands for it.

[streaker69]

I tried to put a command as described: dmesg | grep Broadcom but nothing apeared. no error, no statement, nothing.
Also tried to do dmesg | grep eth1 but also nothing. I might be missing something or I need to put an ESSID first or something. Very noobish of me what can I do.
I read parts on slackbook about network and wireless but cant find the right commands for it.

The dmesg command shows what loaded and what didn't load when the system booted, if I recall properly. Piping ( | ) it to grep and adding Broadcom after it tells it to only display the lines that have Broadcom in it. It is case senstive so if Broadcom it's capped (B) then it might not find it.

Try this:

dmesg | grep roadcom

yes, I left the B off because you don't know if that character is capped or not, but the rest may still appear on the line. You could just do this:

dmesg | more

and then it will list everything 1 page at a time and you're looking for any line that says Broadcom on it. Post those results.

[MaxHalz]

After trying to run commands this info I got from it. First i did grep | more and then found the bcm43xx wich i tought is related to my WIFI card. Later did grep | bcm43xx and this is what i got:

bt ~ # dmesg | grep bcm43xx
bcm43xx driver
bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4311, rev 0x2
bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x13, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Unsupported 80211 core revision 13
bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x817, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x820, rev 0x5, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Analog: 4, Type 2, Revision 9
bcm43xx: Invalid PHY Revision 9
bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2)
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x123, pl 0x23 (2005-03-22  00:11:18)
bcm43xx: Radio turned on
bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware
bcm43xx: Chip initialized
bcm43xx: 64-bit DMA initialized
bcm43xx: Keys cleared
bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
bcm43xx: FATAL ERROR: BCM43xx_IRQ_XMIT_ERROR
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: DMA-64 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 0/64
bcm43xx: DMA-64 0x0340 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: DMA-64 0x0300 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: DMA-64 0x02C0 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: DMA-64 0x0280 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: DMA-64 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: DMA-64 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: IRQ_READY timeout
bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-19)
bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x123, pl 0x23 (2005-03-22  00:11:18)
bcm43xx: Radio turned on
bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware
bcm43xx: Chip initialized
bcm43xx: 64-bit DMA initialized
bcm43xx: Keys cleared
bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (bcm->noisecalc.calculation_running) at: drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1538:handle_irq_noise()
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed
bcm43xx: MAC suspend failed

Also will put one for my network card:

Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k2-NAPI
Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:19.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:19.0 to 64
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
e1000: 0000:00:19.0: e1000_probe: (PCI Express:2.5Gb/s:Width x1) 00:1c:c4:c6:17:ac
e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4

[streaker69]

Good job! You've done gone and learnt somethung new. Feels good don't it?

Here's your problem:

bcm43xx: FATAL ERROR: BCM43xx_IRQ_XMIT_ERROR

It looks as though it's loading the firmware which is good. I'm gonna do some research and post back.

In the meantime answer these questions:

Do you have NDISWrapper installed?

Did you do anything with bcm43xx-fwcutter?

Did you do anything with NetworkManager?

Ugh!

Nevermind, I just saw that you posted it's BCM4311. You're not gonna get that one to work. If you had a 4306, then it would work fine. There was just a thread the other day talking about the 4311 and not having support for it.

[ShadowKill]

Wow I missed that as well. Sorry Max, you're SoL. Time for a new card.

Atheros = easy button

[MaxHalz]

Great thanks for help.

Tomorow going to buy and acer travel mate 5720 with a wifi card "link4965 AGN".

I was very surprised as they sell laptops over the country and just by asking them wich wifi card is in any model I was interested in they couldnt know the answer. So google is the best friend but also on some distribution sites for laptops you cant get an info of what wifi card is installed, very hard information to get and all it says is wifi b/g without further explanation.


Yes learned a lesson but thanks to you guys.

Best regards MaxHalz.

[streaker69]

Great thanks for help.

Tomorow going to buy and acer travel mate 5720 with a wifi card "link4965 AGN".

I was very surprised as they sell laptops over the country and just by asking them wich wifi card is in any model I was interested in they couldnt know the answer. So google is the best friend but also on some distribution sites for laptops you cant get an info of what wifi card is installed, very hard information to get and all it says is wifi b/g without further explanation.


Yes learned a lesson but thanks to you guys.

Best regards MaxHalz.

If it's a miniPCI card you're looking for, I got a pair of BCM4306's off of Ebay a while back for about $10.00 each. I use it for general connectivity and I've never had an issue with it.

[eyeownu]

Hi streaker69 i'm having the same problem with the bcm43xx drivers. I know i have the legacy version and need help setting it up.

when i do dmesg | grep bcm
i get the following
bcm43xx driver
bcm43xx: CHIP ID 0x4306, rev0x2
bcm43xx: number of cores: 6
bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800 rev0x2 vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812 rev0x4 vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d rev0x1 vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807 rev0x1 vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804 rev0x7 vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 5: ID 0x800 rev0x4 vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: ignoring additional 802.11a core.
bcm43xx: PHY connected.
bcm43xx: detected PHY: analog 1. type 2 revision 1
bcm43xx: dected radio ID: 225017 (manuf: 17f ver:2050 rev: 2)
bcm43xx:radio turned off
bcm43xx:radio turned off
bcm43xxhy connected
bcm43xxhy disconnected
bcm43xxhy connected
bcm43xx:microcode rev 0x123, pl 0x23 (2005-03-22 00:11:18)
bcm43xx:radio turned on
bcm43xx:radio enabled by hardware
bcm43xx:chip initalized
bcm43xx:30-bit DMA initalized
bcm43xx:TODO: incomplete code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1151

bcm43xx:TODO: incomplete code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1153
bcm43xx: keys cleared
bcm43xx: selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
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i have also tried the b43fwcutter 011 method using the legacy driver and fwcutter tool to install the new firmware located at /lib/firmware

but i'm not sure how/if i need to de-active the old drivers by somehow commenting them out or uninstalling. I have not installed ndiswrapper (unless it comes with bt3final)

I have been able to use spoonwep and kismet for wireless network detection and instrusion. but I'm having trouble getting airsnarf to work i get the following messages
after i have edited /etc/airsnarf.cfg

and updated the wlan0 setting to eth1

creating dhcp.d conf ..done
building the captive portal..done.
setting the wireless parameters..wlanconfig: ioctl: operation not supported
wlanconfig: ioctl: no such device

any help would get greatly appreee........

thanks!

[MaxHalz]

I will try this card that comes with my laptop, but if will be going to buy a new NIC will go for some that has a connector for an antenna. I understand that orinoco gold is a good choice of what I read in some books.

Also, despite the failures I had am starting to like the hard way of getting things done the right way.

[ShadowKill]

I will try this card that comes with my laptop, but if will be going to buy a new NIC will go for some that has a connector for an antenna. I understand that orinoco gold is a good choice of what I read in some books.

Also, despite the failures I had am starting to like the hard way of getting things done the right way.

Feels good doesn't it? I've always found that one of the greatest feelings is being able to fix/complete something you have little understanding of, on your own for the most part, regardless of how complex it may be or how many times others have accomplished the same task. It will only help you to think "outside the box" down the road, which also is a very good thing....