Richard Schneiderman wrote:
All,
I can now see my wireless connection using iwlist but when I use iwconfig, the acceess point keeps saying not associated. It has never worked
I have the 2.6.26 kernel loaded on suse with the lastest b43 firmware.
This is a broadcom 4306 rev. 3.
This is from iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"wireless_g"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
dmesg | grep b43
b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found
input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input5
firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw
firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
This statement says I might should be using b43legacy for my card.
4306 and 4309 cards with a MAC core revision of 4 or less should also use b43legacy. b43 should be used on all other cards.
Just where in this output do you see the MAC core revision listed??? You don't
because it is ssb that reads that parameter and selects b43. Your device has a
MAC core revision of 5 or greater. See the fives in the firmware files above?
That is a clue.
If your BCM4306 had been a Rev. 2, then it would have used b43legacy. I just
updated the linux-wireless wiki to redescribe which driver is used for which
card variant.
What are the other details of your system? Which version of SuSE is your distro?
What encryption? If WEP, are you entering the key as a passphrase or a hex
string? In the dmesg output, what is the result of 'dmesg | grep wlan0'?
Do you have the option of using NetworkManager? Some distros use dhclient, which
does a down/up sequence that seems to disturb b43. In general, openSUSE distros
do not have this problem. I use the "traditional ifup method" (as configured by
YaST) with a 10.3 system, and NetworkManager with 11.0. Both work with b43.
Larry
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