* Wireless Problem
@ 2012-02-09 19:00 Vince Radice
2012-02-09 19:17 ` Rafał Miłecki
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Vince Radice @ 2012-02-09 19:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: b43-dev
Hi,
I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter
working. I have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to
figure out what is happening. I have attached two files. One contains
the output from dmesg. The other has the output from several commands
as requested in the doc.
I have the latest of all of the commonly used software -
ndiswrapper, Broadcom STA, Fedora FC16 with all updates, b43-fwcutter,
and a lot more that I can't remember.
The pc I am using has an ethernet connection. I am trying to get
the wireless working there. I am not able to successfully connect to my
home wireless network. I can somewhat connect by manually assigning the
IP address. It will connect and assign an IP address but I can't do
anything. If I try ping, I get host unreachable.
My question stems from a lack of what to do. Looking at your
documentation, I see references to b43-fwcutter. Do I have to do
something with that program? I have read what it does, but no where have
I read anything about me having to do something to get the firmware.
Another question is which drivers should I be using - Broadcom STA,
b43, or ndiswrapper with windows drivers for xp? I have tried to get
all of these working at some point. I may have tried running several at
the same time as I don't know how to check what is being used. I can
list what is installed.
Should I open a thread some place? If so, I was thinking the
Networking forum at Fedora. I found your site listed in one recent post
there. I could add to it.
Thanks in advance for any help and advice you give.
Vince Radice
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* Wireless Problem
2012-02-09 19:00 Wireless Problem Vince Radice
@ 2012-02-09 19:17 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-02-09 19:38 ` Arend van Spriel
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Rafał Miłecki @ 2012-02-09 19:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: b43-dev
2012/2/9 Vince Radice <vhradice@cfl.rr.com>:
> ? ?I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter working. ?I
> have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to figure out what
> is happening. ?I have attached two files. ?One contains the output from
> dmesg. ?The other has the output from several commands as requested in the
> doc.
This is BCM43231, fullmac device, nothing to-be-covered by b43 driver.
The driver that may support this chipset is brcmfmac, but for now only
support for BCM4329, BCM4330 and BCM43236 was recently-added. I think
I remember Arend saying they are not working on support for BCM43231
for now. I may be wrong however.
We could try hacking support for this chipset by just extracting
firmware for BCM43231 and adding proper USB ID in brcmfmac. I don't
think anyone is working on this.
--
Rafa?
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* Wireless Problem
2012-02-09 19:17 ` Rafał Miłecki
@ 2012-02-09 19:38 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-02-09 20:55 ` Vince Radice
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Arend van Spriel @ 2012-02-09 19:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: b43-dev
On 02/09/2012 08:17 PM, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote:
> 2012/2/9 Vince Radice <vhradice@cfl.rr.com>:
>> I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter working. I
>> have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to figure out what
>> is happening. I have attached two files. One contains the output from
>> dmesg. The other has the output from several commands as requested in the
>> doc.
>
> This is BCM43231, fullmac device, nothing to-be-covered by b43 driver.
> The driver that may support this chipset is brcmfmac, but for now only
> support for BCM4329, BCM4330 and BCM43236 was recently-added. I think
> I remember Arend saying they are not working on support for BCM43231
> for now. I may be wrong however.
You are correct.
> We could try hacking support for this chipset by just extracting
> firmware for BCM43231 and adding proper USB ID in brcmfmac. I don't
> think anyone is working on this.
>
I believe the API between driver and firmware is different so expect
problems doing that. I can inform just how different.
Gr. AvS
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* Wireless Problem
2012-02-09 19:38 ` Arend van Spriel
@ 2012-02-09 20:55 ` Vince Radice
2012-02-10 6:13 ` Rafał Miłecki
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Vince Radice @ 2012-02-09 20:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: b43-dev
Thank you for the quick response. Some of the posts that I looked at
indicated success with what was available, but they never came back with
the proper list of what worked.
As for my question about b43-fwcutter, do I do something with this
or is it done behind the scenes by a driver?
Also, some have had success with the STA drivers. I believe that I
have installed them with yum. How can I tell if they are being used?
Can I somehow tie those drivers with my usb adapter?
Again, thanks,
Vince Radice
On 02/09/2012 02:38 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 08:17 PM, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote:
>> 2012/2/9 Vince Radice<vhradice@cfl.rr.com>:
>>> I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter working. I
>>> have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to figure out what
>>> is happening. I have attached two files. One contains the output from
>>> dmesg. The other has the output from several commands as requested in the
>>> doc.
>> This is BCM43231, fullmac device, nothing to-be-covered by b43 driver.
>> The driver that may support this chipset is brcmfmac, but for now only
>> support for BCM4329, BCM4330 and BCM43236 was recently-added. I think
>> I remember Arend saying they are not working on support for BCM43231
>> for now. I may be wrong however.
> You are correct.
>
>> We could try hacking support for this chipset by just extracting
>> firmware for BCM43231 and adding proper USB ID in brcmfmac. I don't
>> think anyone is working on this.
>>
> I believe the API between driver and firmware is different so expect
> problems doing that. I can inform just how different.
>
> Gr. AvS
>
>
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* Wireless Problem
2012-02-09 20:55 ` Vince Radice
@ 2012-02-10 6:13 ` Rafał Miłecki
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Rafał Miłecki @ 2012-02-10 6:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: b43-dev
W dniu 9 lutego 2012 21:55 u?ytkownik Vince Radice
<vhradice@cfl.rr.com> napisa?:
> ? ?As for my question about b43-fwcutter, do I do something with this or is
> it done behind the scenes by a driver?
No idea what are you asking about. What do you mean by "I do
something"? What are you trying to achieve?
b43 driver won't work this this card. b43-fwcutter is firmware
extractor for b43 driver. It's not needed for this card.
> ? ?Also, some have had success with the STA drivers. ?I believe that I have
> installed them with yum. ?How can I tell if they are being used? ?Can I
> somehow tie those drivers with my usb adapter?
I don't think STA supports fullmac devices (like your USB one). You
can list loaded modules by "lsmod"
hint:
lsmod | grep wl
lsmod | grep b43
etc.
lspci also shows currently used driver when using verbose mode (lspci -v):
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100
Subsystem: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 AGN
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 48
Memory at d1500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
(...)
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
P.S.
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Please, bottom-post.
--
Rafa?
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* Re: wireless problem
2010-09-12 12:32 wireless problem Simon Baker
@ 2010-09-12 17:37 ` Gábor Stefanik
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Gábor Stefanik @ 2010-09-12 17:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Simon Baker; +Cc: linux-wireless
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Simon Baker
<simon.baker7@virginmedia.com> wrote:
> hi,just wondering if you can help me with a problem ive been having
> when running the backtrack 3 program.i have windows 7 on my hp
> pavillion laptop and my built-in wifi works fine but when i boot
> backtrack it wont work.i looked in my hp wireless assistant and it
> says i have 4 network adapter problems.could this be anything to do
> with it? ive tried to update the drivers which it says to do but for
> some reason it cant update them so im in limbo when it comes to fixing
> the adapter issues
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BackTrack 3 is very old (has 2.6.21 kernel, no longer
supported/maintained). Please test with BackTrack 4.
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* wireless problem
@ 2010-09-12 12:32 Simon Baker
2010-09-12 17:37 ` Gábor Stefanik
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Simon Baker @ 2010-09-12 12:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-wireless
hi,just wondering if you can help me with a problem ive been having
when running the backtrack 3 program.i have windows 7 on my hp
pavillion laptop and my built-in wifi works fine but when i boot
backtrack it wont work.i looked in my hp wireless assistant and it
says i have 4 network adapter problems.could this be anything to do
with it? ive tried to update the drivers which it says to do but for
some reason it cant update them so im in limbo when it comes to fixing
the adapter issues
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