Hi, I have trouble getting b43 to work with my card. The trouble seems to be with the transmit/receive power, but I have no idea what to try next. The card is: lspci -vvnn -s 01:06.0 01:06.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:100f] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: Memory at fdffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] When I use the old driver, in dmesg I get: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2 bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4 bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243 bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243 bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x804, rev 0xc, vendor 0x4243 bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x80d, rev 0x7, vendor 0x4243 bcm43xx: PHY connected bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Analog: 3, Type 2, Revision 7 bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 8205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 8) bcm43xx: Radio initialized bcm43xx: Radio initialized bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x127, pl 0xe (2005-04-18 02:36:27) bcm43xx: Radio turned on bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (radio_attenuation < 10) at: /home/asia/linuxx/2625/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_phy.c:1489:bcm43xx_find_lopair() bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (radio_attenuation < 10) at: /home/asia/linuxx/2625/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_phy.c:1489:bcm43xx_find_lopair() bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (radio_attenuation < 10) at: /home/asia/linuxx/2625/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_phy.c:1489:bcm43xx_find_lopair() bcm43xx: Chip initialized bcm43xx: 32-bit DMA initialized bcm43xx: Keys cleared bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2) bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (radio_attenuation < 10) at: /home/asia/linuxx/2625/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_phy.c:1489:bcm43xx_find_lopair() SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 13 channels starting with channel 1 SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first. SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 13 channels starting with channel 1 SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to 00:1a:70:6e:cc:24 SoftMAC: Cannot associate without being authenticated, requested authentication SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:1a:70:6e:cc:24. SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:1a:70:6e:cc:24 SoftMAC: sent association request! SoftMAC: associated! and iwlist scan gives me: wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:1A:70:6E:CC:24 ESSID:"linksys" Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Master Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11) Encryption key:off Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Quality=90/100 Signal level=-41 dBm Noise level=-62 dBm Extra: Last beacon: 96ms ago Cell 02 - Address: 00:18:4D:8A:F8:20 ESSID:"ishar" Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Master Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11) Encryption key:off Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Quality=80/100 Signal level=-58 dBm Noise level=-62 dBm Extra: Last beacon: 24ms ago When I try the new driver: b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 3, Type 2, Revision 7 b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 8 b43-phy0 debug: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10) b43-phy0 debug: Tuning TX-power to bbatt(2), rfatt(10), tx_control(0x00), tx_bias(0x00), tx_magn(0x00) b43-phy0 debug: Tuning TX-power to bbatt(11), rfatt(15), tx_control(0x00), tx_bias(0x00), tx_magn(0x70) b43-phy0 debug: Tuning TX-power to bbatt(2), rfatt(10), tx_control(0x00), tx_bias(0x00), tx_magn(0x70) b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized b43-phy0 debug: 32-bit DMA initialized b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started HW CONFIG: channel=1 freq=2412 phymode=2 b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready b43-phy0 debug: max_used_slots increased to 1 on RX ring 0 HW CONFIG: channel=1 freq=2412 phymode=2 b43-phy0 debug: max_used_slots increased to 1 on TX ring 1 b43-phy0 debug: max_used_slots increased to 2 on TX ring 1 b43-phy0 debug: Injecting TX ring overflow on DMA controller 1 b43-phy0 debug: Stopped TX ring 1 HW CONFIG: channel=2 freq=2417 phymode=2 HW CONFIG: channel=3 freq=2422 phymode=2 HW CONFIG: channel=4 freq=2427 phymode=2 HW CONFIG: channel=5 freq=2432 phymode=2 HW CONFIG: channel=6 freq=2437 phymode=2 HW CONFIG: channel=7 freq=2442 phymode=2 HW CONFIG: channel=8 freq=2447 phymode=2 HW CONFIG: channel=9 freq=2452 phymode=2 HW CONFIG: channel=10 freq=2457 phymode=2 HW CONFIG: channel=11 freq=2462 phymode=2 HW CONFIG: channel=1 freq=2412 phymode=2 HW CONFIG: channel=11 freq=2462 phymode=2 wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1a:70:6e:cc:24 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1a:70:6e:cc:24 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1a:70:6e:cc:24 wlan0: authentication with AP 00:1a:70:6e:cc:24 timed out and iwlist scan: wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:1A:70:6E:CC:24 ESSID:"linksys" Mode:Master Channel:11 Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11) Quality=46/100 Signal level=-66 dBm Noise level=0 dBm Encryption key:off Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s Extra:tsf=000000076600118b Cell 02 - Address: 00:18:4D:8A:F8:20 ESSID:"ishar" Mode:Master Channel:11 Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11) Quality=60/100 Signal level=-52 dBm Noise level=0 dBm Encryption key:off Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s Extra:tsf=0000009c7a9b2185 Any ideas? 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