[A version of this message was originally posted to the bcm43xx-dev ML: https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2009-October/006197.html I received no response there, so I thought I'd try here.] My Broadcom 4318 (details below) has been working fine for quite some time with b43 in mainline. As recently as 2.6.31, it was still working: Oct 18 20:30:06 localhost wpa_supplicant[2892]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Oct 18 20:30:06 localhost wpa_supplicant[2892]: Trying to associate with 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 (SSID='cranford' freq=2437 MHz) Oct 18 20:30:06 localhost wpa_supplicant[2892]: Association request to the driver failed Oct 18 20:30:07 localhost kernel: [ 78.196304] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 Oct 18 20:30:07 localhost kernel: [ 78.197716] wlan0: authenticated Oct 18 20:30:07 localhost kernel: [ 78.197719] wlan0: associate with AP 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 Oct 18 20:30:07 localhost kernel: [ 78.200084] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 (capab=0x431 status=43 aid=0) Oct 18 20:30:07 localhost kernel: [ 78.200088] wlan0: AP denied association (code=43) Oct 18 20:30:07 localhost kernel: [ 78.397059] wlan0: associate with AP 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 Oct 18 20:30:07 localhost wpa_supplicant[2892]: Associated with 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 Oct 18 20:30:07 localhost kernel: [ 78.399232] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=2) Oct 18 20:30:07 localhost kernel: [ 78.399237] wlan0: associated Oct 18 20:30:07 localhost kernel: [ 78.400055] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready Oct 18 20:30:08 localhost dnsmasq[1968]: reading /var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf Oct 18 20:30:08 localhost dnsmasq[1968]: using nameserver 192.168.0.1#53 Oct 18 20:30:09 localhost wpa_supplicant[2892]: WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP] Oct 18 20:30:09 localhost wpa_supplicant[2892]: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=] Oct 18 20:30:09 localhost kernel: [ 80.263676] b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 0, mac: 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 Oct 18 20:30:09 localhost kernel: [ 80.263699] b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 1, mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff The early 2.6.32 rc kernels were giving oopses, apparently because of this: https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2009-October/006129.html The patch is apparently in -rc5, but that kernel, while it doesn't oops, fails to authenticate: Oct 17 19:44:05 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Oct 17 19:44:07 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Oct 17 19:44:07 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: Trying to associate with 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 (SSID='cranford' freq=2437 MHz) Oct 17 19:44:07 localhost kernel: [ 198.914180] wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 by local choice (reason=3) Oct 17 19:44:07 localhost kernel: [ 198.914320] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 (try 1) Oct 17 19:44:07 localhost kernel: [ 198.917136] wlan0: direct probe responded Oct 17 19:44:07 localhost kernel: [ 198.917141] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 (try 1) Oct 17 19:44:07 localhost kernel: [ 198.918857] wlan0: authenticated Oct 17 19:44:07 localhost kernel: [ 198.918873] wlan0: associate with AP 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 (try 1) Oct 17 19:44:07 localhost kernel: [ 198.921192] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 (capab=0x431 status=43 aid=0) Oct 17 19:44:07 localhost kernel: [ 198.921196] wlan0: AP denied association (code=43) Oct 17 19:44:17 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: Authentication with 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 timed out. Oct 17 19:44:19 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Oct 17 19:44:19 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: Trying to associate with 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 (SSID='cranford' freq=2437 MHz) Oct 17 19:44:19 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: Association request to the driver failed Oct 17 19:44:24 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: Authentication with 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 timed out. Oct 17 19:44:25 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Oct 17 19:44:25 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: Trying to associate with 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 (SSID='cranford' freq=2437 MHz) Oct 17 19:44:25 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: Association request to the driver failed Oct 17 19:44:30 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: Authentication with 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 timed out. Oct 17 19:44:31 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Oct 17 19:44:31 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: Trying to associate with 00:14:d1:3e:ff:30 (SSID='cranford' freq=2437 MHz) Oct 17 19:44:31 localhost wpa_supplicant[3477]: Association request to the driver failed Any idea what's going on here? I can, of course, do a bisection if necessary, but I'm asking first in case there's a known or suspected issue that someone can point me to. [Please cc me on responses.] Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- 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
