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Re: Broadcom BCM4318 AirForceOne issue - Ubuntu 9.10 on Acer Aspire 5024wlmi

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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Giuseppe Fontana <gfontana13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok! Consider that to reduce complexity, I stopped the firewall agent
> in the WinXPPro laptop that hosts the wifi ad-hoc network. So we can
> exclude the firewall :)
> By the way, has Ubuntu got a default firewall active?

No, it doesn't, but I was unsuccessfully trying to connect to an adhoc
network the other day myself - using my phone to create the network.
An xp computer in the house and other phones were having no issue
connecting to it though.

I didn't really care to troubleshoot it, so I just switched to using
bluetooth for the connection.  Possibly related.  I'll try it again
tonight just for grins..

-Greg

> 2010/1/19 Greg Oliver <oliver.greg@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Giuseppe Fontana <gfontana13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> ping from .1 -> .99  >>>> No ping
>>> ping from .1 to <ip of nokia> >> I don't know how to determine Nokia
>>> IP. I can't get it from the phone GUI. Is there a way to get it from
>>> Windows? But I guess ping should work, cause Nokia phone can access
>>> internet via wireless...
>>
>> I was just trying to rule out a firewall issue..
>>
>>> 2010/1/19 Greg Oliver <oliver.greg@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Giuseppe Fontana <gfontana13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Yes, I installed b43-fwcutter to extract the adapter firmware, as
>>>>> suggested in linux-wireless page.
>>>>> I did other experiments and I have an update: the issue is only with
>>>>> ad-hoc networks.
>>>>> Moreover yesterday I successufully connected to a Windows ad-hoc
>>>>> network using Network Manager (that is able to force BSSID address to
>>>>> grant access to the same cell of the ad-hoc network) following these
>>>>> steps:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. I created an ad-hoc network (essid "SkyNet") under WinXPPro, to
>>>>> share my Internet connection via wireless. To   achieve this result I
>>>>> manually set 192.168.0.1 IP address and 255.255.255.0 netmask. I also
>>>>> selected connection sharing option under the adapter connected to the
>>>>> internet.
>>>>>  2. Connected to the ad-hoc network using my Nokia E52 phone. The
>>>>> phone and WinXPPro successfully created the network and negotiated IP
>>>>> addresses via DHCP (note that after connection the phone can access
>>>>> internet and navigate)
>>>>> 3. At this point, I connected Ubuntu to the ad-hoc network via Network
>>>>> Manager. dhcpclient founds an active network and connection happens :)
>>>>> (Note that I later I discovered that I can achieve the same result
>>>>> skipping step 2 and manually setting a 192.168.0.x address in Ubuntu
>>>>> via Network Manager profile).
>>>>>
>>>>> However I still have a problem: even if the connection is established,
>>>>> I cannot ping the 192.168.0.1 address and the Ubunbtu laptop can't use
>>>>> the shared internet connection. Here is the syslog printed during the
>>>>> connection (with dhcp negotiation):
>>>>
>>>> Can you ping from .1 -> .99 and from .1 to <ip of nokia>?
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2010/1/18 Shang Wu <shang@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>> In 9.04, it used to be installing the package b43-fwcutter. Is the package
>>>>>> installed on your system? Can you also pastebin the syslog?
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Giuseppe Fontana <gfontana13@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi! I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my Acer 5024wlmi and followed Linux
>>>>>>> wireless instructions to enable my Broadcom AirForceOne BCM4318 wifi
>>>>>>> card. Now the wireless adapter is on (laptop front led also is on), I
>>>>>>> can see wifi networks but connection fails (even with a simple ad-hoc
>>>>>>> open wifi network!). I tried with Network Manager/WICD/Wifi Radar and
>>>>>>> also using terminal lfconfig/lwconfig commands without success. It
>>>>>>> seems that my wifi card cannot ping access points: for example see
>>>>>>> this log from WICD connection session:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -2010/01/16 22:51:15 :: Connecting to wireless network Winx
>>>>>>> -2010/01/16 22:51:15 :: ping -q -w 3 -c 1 192.168.0.1
>>>>>>> -2010/01/16 22:51:17 :: iwconfig wlan0
>>>>>>> -2010/01/16 22:51:18 :: Connection Failed: Failed to ping the access
>>>>>>> point!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here there are some useful data about my laptop/Ubuntu configuration.
>>>>>>> Hope you can help!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> Laptop model >> Acer Aspire 5024wlmi laptop
>>>>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ lsb_release -d >> Description:    Ubuntu 9.10
>>>>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ uname -mr >> 2.6.31-17-generic i686
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ sudo lspci | grep 'Broadcom'
>>>>>>> 06:05.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
>>>>>>> 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0
>>>>>>> wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:""
>>>>>>>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
>>>>>>>           Tx-Power=20 dBm
>>>>>>>           Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>>>>>>>           Encryption key:off
>>>>>>>           Power Management: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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ sudo lsmod | grep "b43"
>>>>>>> b43                   122168  0
>>>>>>> mac80211              181140  1 b43
>>>>>>> cfg80211               93052  2 b43,mac80211
>>>>>>> led_class               4096  3 acer_wmi,b43,sdhci
>>>>>>> ssb                    35364  1 b43
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep b43
>>>>>>> [    2.717660] b43-pci-bridge 0000:06:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21
>>>>>>> (level, low) -> IRQ 21
>>>>>>> [   14.884317] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
>>>>>>> [   16.516094] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
>>>>>>> [   16.739725] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw
>>>>>>> [   16.745578] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
>>>>>>> [   16.751202] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> [ 4300.736074] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26
>>>>>>> 15:32:10)
>>>>>>> [ 4300.776488] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
>>>>>>> [ 4300.776531] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
>>>>>>> [ 4300.776575] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
>>>>>>>   *-network:0
>>>>>>>        description: Network controller
>>>>>>>        product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
>>>>>>>        vendor: Broadcom Corporation
>>>>>>>        physical id: 5
>>>>>>>        bus info: pci@0000:06:05.0
>>>>>>>        version: 02
>>>>>>>        width: 32 bits
>>>>>>>        clock: 33MHz
>>>>>>>        capabilities: bus_master
>>>>>>>        configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64
>>>>>>>        resources: irq:21 memory:c0204000-c0205fff
>>>>>>>   *-network:1
>>>>>>>        description: Ethernet interface
>>>>>>>        product: RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet
>>>>>>>        vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>>>>>>>        physical id: 7
>>>>>>>        bus info: pci@0000:06:07.0
>>>>>>>        logical name: eth0
>>>>>>>        version: 10
>>>>>>>        serial: 00:0a:e4:e8:a2:87
>>>>>>>        size: 1GB/s
>>>>>>>        capacity: 1GB/s
>>>>>>>        width: 32 bits
>>>>>>>        clock: 66MHz
>>>>>>>        capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp
>>>>>>> mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
>>>>>>>        configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169
>>>>>>> driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.0.242 latency=64
>>>>>>> link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=1GB/s
>>>>>>>        resources: irq:23 ioport:a000(size=256)
>>>>>>> memory:c0209400-c02094ff memory:44000000-4401ffff(prefetchable)
>>>>>>>   *-network
>>>>>>>        description: Wireless interface
>>>>>>>        physical id: 1
>>>>>>>        logical name: wlan0
>>>>>>>        serial: 00:14:a4:49:c7:fc
>>>>>>>        capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
>>>>>>>        configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ sudo iwlist scan
>>>>>>> (...)
>>>>>>> wlan0     Scan completed :
>>>>>>>           Cell 01 - Address: 02:1D:E0:00:08:5A
>>>>>>>                     Channel:11
>>>>>>>                     Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
>>>>>>>                     Quality=62/70  Signal level=-48 dBm
>>>>>>>                     Encryption key:off
>>>>>>>                     ESSID:"Winx"
>>>>>>>                     Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
>>>>>>>                     Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
>>>>>>>                               36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
>>>>>>>                     Mode:Ad-Hoc
>>>>>>>                     Extra:tsf=00000001035383eb
>>>>>>>                     Extra: Last beacon: 272ms ago
>>>>>>>                     IE: Unknown: 000457696E78
>>>>>>>                     IE: Unknown: 010482840B16
>>>>>>>                     IE: Unknown: 03010B
>>>>>>>                     IE: Unknown: 06020000
>>>>>>>                     IE: Unknown: 2A0100
>>>>>>>                     IE: Unknown: 32080C1218243048606C
>>>>>>>                     IE: Unknown: DD070giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ sudo
>>>>>>> iwlist scan050F202000100
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
>>>>>>>  * Reconfiguring network interfaces...
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