[Voyage-linux] Adding Broadcom 4318 Wireless card to Alix board

Frank Parker (spam-protected)
Sun Apr 19 09:34:59 HKT 2009


Apologies for the simple question.  I have searched for hours and read
a lot of confusing documentation, but I'm afraid I still need help
with this.

I am adding a Broadcom 4319 Min-PCI wireless card to my ALIX 2D3 board.

voyage:~# dmesg | grep -i broadcom
b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMLR, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]

Can someone point to the proper directions for configuration?

Requirements:

1) This device needs to be an open Access Point, no encryption.
2) wlan0, eth1, eth2 should be configured as a bridge.
3) eth0 is already configured as the WAN uplink.

I did "ifconfig wlan0 up" followed by "iwconfig wlan essid OpenWifi"
but it doesn't appear to be sending any signal (signal level 0).

voyage:~# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"OpenWifi"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=20 dBm
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 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
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


Thanks,

-parker




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