Re: [gentoo-amd64] bcm43xx setup

[Mark Haney]

Beso wrote:
> from dmesg i can see that you get no firmware error so your chip loads it
> well.
> from pci id and chip detection i can see that your chip is:
> 4306 PCI/Cardbus Supported
> for what i've seen it seems that you have an amilo1650 which has an annoying
> radio switch to turn on. the fsaa1655g does the trick for mine laptop. but i
> think that you would use that radio switch with ndiswrapper too. if it's not
> the case then i'd need to have some more info. do a dmesg > dmesg.txt and
> append it. then do a cat /var/log/messages > message.txt and append it too.
> it seems that there's something happening when loading the module.
> the wext module is a misunderstood. i should have define it better: its not
> a kernel module, but it stands for linux Wireless EXTenensions. i've called
> it module doing a bad thing for you've nisunderstood. so you won't see it in
> the lsmod simply because it's not a kernel module.
> the wlan0 has wireless extensions but you have some problems with the core
> going up. so the interface you'd use is wlan0. the problem is that bcm43xx
> module fails to startup the core and keeps the wireless channel off. so we
> have to first see what happens when it tries to load the module and know why
> it doesn't start.
> and there would also be a good thing doing a lspci and then find the slot of
> your broadcom board and do a lspci -vs the slot number.
> here i give you an example:
> this is part of lspci output:
>
>> 08:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
>>
> and this is lspci -vs 08:0d.0 output:
>
>> 08:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
>>         Subsystem: Fujitsu Siemens Computer GmbH Unknown device 10a4
>>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
>>         I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
>>         Memory at c0210800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
>>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>
>
> i'd like to know if lspci detects the same  board as does the bcm driver.
> so, in conclusion: i need a full dmesg output, the kernel log, lspci verbose
> on the slot of your broadcom board and to know if you have some software
> wireless switch (that normally were included into fujitsu notebooks).
>
>
>

Well, I gotta tell ya, I don't know if somehow I missed this, or I tried 
this command in the wrong place orwhat, but it works now.  I had tried 
'iwconfig wlan0 up' and that didn't work and I was almost certain I had 
tried 'ifconfig wlan0 up' and THAT didn't work either.

However, I re-tried the ifconfig command and it worked this time.  I can 
now scan the wireless network in my office and everything looks really 
good at this point.  I do appreciate the help you've given me, Beso, I 
certainly hope I can return the favor in the future.


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