"Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote in message
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> David wrote:
>> "Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote in message
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>>> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>> "David" <dave@antispam.invalid> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on a desktop PC using (or trying to)
>>>>> a Linksys WMP54G PCI wifi card (that uses a Broadcom BCM4306 chipset.)
>>>>> Trying to connect to a Netgear DG834 adsl router.
>>>>> It works using windows xp just fine.
>>>>> It doesn't in Ubuntu no matter what I seem to do, althugh it's fine
>>>>> using a wired connection.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tried latest "restricted" Broadcom drivers in Ubuntu and even compiled
>>>>> them myself to check.
>>>>>
>>>>> lspci gives:
>>>>> (cut version)
>>>>> 00:0f.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
>>>>> Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
>>>>> 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>>>>> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
>>>>> From which I assume the card and drivers are okay????
>>>> Nope. They probably are OK, but you tell that by the fact the they
>>>> have brought up an interface (see later). The above is taken from a
>>>> table and just identifies the hardware.
>>>>
>>>>> But using wifi radar or wicd I can't establish an ip address.
>>>> What happens if you try to let Ubuntu do it all itself? I.e. can't
>>>> the network manager get you connected?
>>>>
>>>>> Now iwconfig says there is a card there but states encrypt is off ,
>>>>> even though I have setup WEP with a password (to avoid WPA added
>>>>> complications at this time.)
>>>>> Also it seems to say RX is invalid??? Dont know what that means.
>>>> Rx is receive (as opposed to Tx -- transmit) so...
>>>>
>>>>> Here it is:
>>>>> IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"sally000"
>>>>> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point:
>>>>> Not-Associated
>>>>> Tx-Power=27 dBm
>>>>> Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 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
>>>> this says there have been 0 receive errors (none due to invalid nwid,
>>>> none due to invalid frag, etc).
>>>>
>>>>> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>>>>>
>>>>> Also the PC is next to the wireless router (2 feet away) so is the
>>>>> signal level rather low? But it does work with XP as I said above..
>>>> Yes. It looks like either the driver does not report the signal
>>>> strength (unlikely) or it is not really working. What does dmsg have
>>>> to say about the driver. For example, I need the ipw2200 driver and I
>>>> get:
>>>>
>>>> $ dmesg | grep ipw
>>>> [ 7.682082] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver,
>>>> 1.2.2kmprq
>>>> [ 7.682088] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
>>>> [ 7.684676] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network
>>>> Connection
>>>> [ 5.223188] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZD (13 802.11bg channels, 0
>>>> 802.11a channels)
>>>>
>>>> I do all this sort of stuff with WEP off to start with. From the
>>>> bottom up you need:
>>>>
>>>> - The driver to find some hardware it understands.
>>>> - The hardware to associate with the right AP
>>>> - The interface to be given an address (often just by using DHCP).
>>>> - The routing tables to be correctly set up
>>>> - The right DNS server.
>>>>
>>>> If the hardware is working, I'd expect
>>>>
>>>> $ iwlist scan
>>>>
>>>> to show your AP. Does it?
>>>>
>>> What does the output of a 'dmesg' command have to say about your
>>> BCM4306? The lspci output only shows that the card is plugged in. Most
>>> of the useful stuff is in the system logs that you can access from dmesg
>>> (for the current boot) or from /var/log/messages (for the current boot
>>> and before).
>>>
>>> I guess that you will see messages about missing firmware. You did turn
>>> bcm43xx debugging on, or didn't you?
>>>
>>> Larry
>>
>> Hi Larry,
>>
>> dmsg gives me 10 feet of stuff but I have narrowed it down by dmsg | grep
>> b43 to get
>>
>> -------
>> [ 54.575135] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found
>> [ 70.172030] input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input6
>> [ 72.206158] Registered led device: b43-phy0:tx
>> [ 72.207040] Registered led device: b43-phy0:rx
>> [ 72.207678] Registered led device: b43-phy0:radio
>> [ 77.695944] input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input7
>> [ 80.038241] Registered led device: b43-phy0:tx
>> [ 80.038761] Registered led device: b43-phy0:rx
>> [ 80.039016] Registered led device: b43-phy0:radio
>>
>> ------------------
>> Does this help?
>> If you really want the full output I can send it.
>>
>> What is bcm43xx debugging????
>
> As you are using the b43 driver, please select the debug option for both
> b43 and the Silicon Sonics driver. No, I don't need the full dmesg output.
>
> Larry

Yes using b43 as thats what
http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.ne...rs/Drivers/b43 and soem googled
outputs have recommende and tht's what is the default on Ubuntu 8.04.
But still don't underatydnm what you mean by debug option. Sory to be thinck
but no idea what this and where.
Also not sure why you say to use silicon sonics drivers. Its a broadcom chip
so using broadcom firmware. Have I lost the plot? Sorry to be a noob.
Cheers