Quoting Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 01:01 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
Has anyone managed to get a BCM4306 wifi card working with rawhide?
I've been trying for quite a while, and with just about every firmware
version I can locate but still not had any luck.
You are in luck.
I just went thru that with a card I was installing this week.
I followed the instructions from here,
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=115572
which is linked to from here:
http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html
I had to use the driver gotten in the 80211g.zip package from the link
on that page because the version on my CD would not create the proper
firmware package.
I tried the bcmwl5.sys on the 80211g.zip file, and it locked my
machine hard on trying to load X.
Errors with:
BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
[<c04051ee>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x171
[<c0405802>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
[<c040591b>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[<c0450d37>] softlockup_tick+0xa5/0xb9
[<c042d998>] run_local_timers+0x12/0x14
[<c042dd17>] update_process_times+0x3c/0x61
[<c041740b>] smp_local_timer_interrupt+0x2e/0x31
[<c0407b53>] timer_interrupt+0x50/0x79
[<c0450fa8>] handle_IRQ_event+0x20/0x4d
[<c0451069>] __do_IRQ+0x94/0xef
[<c040678d>] do_IRQ+0x9e/0xbd
[<c0404a49>] common_interrupt+0x25/0x2c
DWARF unwinder stack at common_interrupt+0x25/0x2c
Leftover inexact backtrace:
=======================
The machine is then dead.
With the latest kernel (2.6.17-1.2617.2.1.fc6), I don't even seem to
get a list of AP's that are around. From a quick google, it looks as
though the bcm43xx driver might be a fair bit out of the actual
bcm43xx development - as there seems to be a patch back in July that
*may* fix this IRQ issue.
I am using FC5 with kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5
dmesg shows the following:
Is anyone successfully using this card? Mine is in a Dell Inspiron
8600 laptop.
My system is a desktop and the card is an AirLink PCI card.
This could be the difference.
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Steven Haigh
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