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

[Punky Tse]

Hi Frank,

So my suggestion is to check what is your voyage kernel and firmware 
version you use first.

Regards,
Punky


Frank Parker wrote:
> Punky, Thanks for the pointer.  My card is 4318 and needs the b43
> driver, as shown on that page.
>
> voyage:~# lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
> 00:0c.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318
> [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev
> 02)
>
> As you can see from my posts below, the b43 driver was installed with
> "apt-get install b43-fwcutter" and dmesg seems to show the b43 driver
> loading successfully at boot time (i think).
>
> -parker
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Punky Tse <punkytse at punknix.com> wrote:
>   
>> Frank,
>>
>> May be here can give you some information:
>>   http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
>>
>> Does the firmware version not match?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Punky
>>
>>
>> Frank Parker wrote:
>>     
>>> I also notice this in dmesg:
>>>
>>> voyage:~# grep -i -e "b43" -e "broadcom" -e "wlan" /var/log/dmesg
>>> b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found
>>> Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMLR, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
>>> input: b43-phy0 as /class/input/input1
>>> firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
>>> firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw
>>> firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
>>> firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
>>> b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
>>> Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
>>> Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
>>> Registered led device: b43-phy0::assoc
>>> Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
>>> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
>>>
>>>
>>> -parker
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Frank Parker <mr.frank.parker at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Sean, thanks for the quick reply.  I've read the README, but I think
>>>> the problem is here:
>>>>
>>>> voyage:~# iwconfig wlan0 essid OpenWifi mode Master
>>>> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
>>>>   SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
>>>>
>>>> It will only accept "mode Ad-Hoc" or "mode Managed".
>>>>
>>>> I did "apt-get install install b43-fwcutter" and the kernel module is
>>>> inserted.
>>>>
>>>> voyage:~# lspci | grep Broadcom
>>>> 00:0c.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
>>>> 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>>>>
>>>> voyage:~# lsmod | grep b43
>>>> b43                   109212  0
>>>> rfkill                  4756  2 rfkill_input,b43
>>>> rng_core                3588  2 b43,geode_rng
>>>> mac80211              114448  1 b43
>>>> led_class               3332  2 leds_alix,b43
>>>> input_polldev           3208  1 b43
>>>> ssb                    30852  1 b43
>>>> pcmcia                 27892  2 b43,ssb
>>>> pcmcia_core            28176  3 b43,ssb,pcmcia
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know what I am missing here?
>>>>
>>>> -parker
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Sean <knife at toaster.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> You would need to at least do this:
>>>>>
>>>>> iwconfig wlan0 essid OpenWifi mode Master
>>>>>
>>>>> Master mode starts the access point functionality.
>>>>>
>>>>> You should read the readme. It has lots of good info on how to set it up
>>>>> as
>>>>> an access point, bridging, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://svn.voyage.hk/repos/voyage/branches/voyage-live/0.6.1/config/chroot_local-includes/README
>>>>>
>>>>> Sean
>>>>>
>>>>> Frank Parker wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> 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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