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Re: [ANN] b43 LP-PHY support (BCM4310/4312/4315) working (partially)!

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2009/8/19 Mark Huijgen <mark.sf.net@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>> Mark, could you produce a dmesg output with the new firmware, patches
>> applied, and channel set to 1? Post the output of dmesg after scanning
>> & probably associating, if possible. (Scan/assoc may produce messages
>> in dmesg.)
>>
> I tested this already, but with default chan set to 1, I cannot get the
> interface up.
> This is somewhere in my mail, but it got a bit messy after I noticed
> that after
> changing some of the code my modules got installed in another directory
> (-dirty).
>
> I just restarted the notebook, but now the results are different again...
>
> New firmware, with patches applied and default channel 7:
> [   72.160057] b43-phy1: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01
> 00:50:23)
> [   72.163484] b43-phy1 debug: RC calib: Failed to switch to channel 7,
> error = -5
> [   72.168100] b43-phy1 debug: Switch to init channel failed, error = -5.
>
> Recompile module with default chan 1, patches still applied and new
> firmware,
> # modprobe -r b43 && modprobe b43 verbose=3 && ifconfig wlan0 up
>
> [  430.259877] b43-phy2 debug: Switch to init channel failed, error = -5.
>
> Recompile again, but with default chan back to 7, still patched and
> still new firmware.
> So same as in first situation:
> # modprobe -r b43 && modprobe b43 verbose=3 && ifconfig wlan0 up
>
> [  524.748062] b43-phy3 debug: Chip initialized
>
> And I can get my interface up and working!
>
> Without this procedure I have not been able to get a working chip. Seems
> the partially
> initialized state after each try, allows the next try to get a bit
> further. And together with
> the default channel switching between 1 and 7, I get a working chip, but
> a chip that does
> not seem to be able to find my AP thats on channel 1.
>
> If I now change default chan to 1 again, I am getting the same error as
> in step 2 above.
> I have not been able to get the interface up with default chan set to 1.
>
> Mark
>
>

What do you see in dmesg after running a scan?

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