As per my talk with st3 #bcm-users I have decided you e-mail you with the details of my problem. I have this card: 02:07.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) And whatever I do I can not get it to associate, I have tried with and without encryption and below are two pastes of dmesg with and without hwcrypto. I am not alone in this I have other people who have the same problem and have to use this patch to get the card working on b43legacy instead (http://url2cut.com?pwI) no hwcrypto: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:07.0 disabled ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:07.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243) ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x05, vendor 0x4243) ssb: Core 2 found: PCMCIA (cc 0x80D, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243) ssb: Core 3 found: V90 (cc 0x807, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243) ssb: Core 4 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x09, vendor 0x4243) ssb: SPROM revision 1 detected. ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:02:07.0 b43-phy4: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found b43-phy4 debug: Found PHY: Analog 2, Type 2, Revision 2 b43-phy4 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2 phy4: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid' Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PL, Firmware-ID: FW13 ] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PLID, Firmware-ID: FW10 ] bonding: bond0: Adding slave wlan0. b43-phy4: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10) b43-phy4 debug: Chip initialized b43-phy4 debug: 30-bit DMA initialized Registered led device: b43-phy4::tx Registered led device: b43-phy4::rx b43-phy4 debug: Wireless interface started b43-phy4 debug: Adding Interface type 2 bonding: bond0: enslaving wlan0 as an active interface with a down link. wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:90:d0:f2:ad:7b wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:90:d0:f2:ad:7b wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:90:d0:f2:ad:7b wlan0: authentication with AP 00:90:d0:f2:ad:7b timed out wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:90:d0:f2:ad:7b wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:90:d0:f2:ad:7b b43-phy4: Radio turned off by software b43-phy4 debug: Removing Interface type 2 b43-phy4 debug: Wireless interface stopped b43-phy4 debug: DMA-30 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 1/64 b43-phy4 debug: DMA-30 0x02A0 (TX) max used slots: 0/128 b43-phy4 debug: DMA-30 0x0280 (TX) max used slots: 0/128 b43-phy4 debug: DMA-30 0x0260 (TX) max used slots: 0/128 b43-phy4 debug: DMA-30 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/128 b43-phy4 debug: DMA-30 0x0220 (TX) max used slots: 32/128 b43-phy4 debug: DMA-30 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/128 with hwcrypto: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:07.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243) ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x05, vendor 0x4243) ssb: Core 2 found: PCMCIA (cc 0x80D, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243) ssb: Core 3 found: V90 (cc 0x807, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243) ssb: Core 4 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x09, vendor 0x4243) ssb: SPROM revision 1 detected. ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:02:07.0 b43-phy3: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found b43-phy3 debug: Found PHY: Analog 2, Type 2, Revision 2 b43-phy3 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2 phy3: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid' Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PL, Firmware-ID: FW13 ] bonding: bond0: Adding slave wlan0. b43-phy3: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10) b43-phy3 debug: Chip initialized b43-phy3 debug: 30-bit DMA initialized Registered led device: b43-phy3::tx Registered led device: b43-phy3::rx b43-phy3 debug: Wireless interface started b43-phy3 debug: Adding Interface type 2 bonding: bond0: enslaving wlan0 as an active interface with a down link. b43-phy3 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 0, mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:90:d0:f2:ad:7b wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:90:d0:f2:ad:7b wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:90:d0:f2:ad:7b wlan0: authentication with AP 00:90:d0:f2:ad:7b timed out wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:90:d0:f2:ad:7b wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:90:d0:f2:ad:7b b43-phy3: Radio turned off by software b43-phy3 debug: Disabling hardware based encryption for keyidx: 0, mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff b43-phy3 debug: Removing Interface type 2 b43-phy3 debug: Wireless interface stopped b43-phy3 debug: DMA-30 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 1/64 b43-phy3 debug: DMA-30 0x02A0 (TX) max used slots: 0/128 b43-phy3 debug: DMA-30 0x0280 (TX) max used slots: 0/128 b43-phy3 debug: DMA-30 0x0260 (TX) max used slots: 0/128 b43-phy3 debug: DMA-30 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/128 b43-phy3 debug: DMA-30 0x0220 (TX) max used slots: 32/128 b43-phy3 debug: DMA-30 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/128 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html