Bug 238313
| Summary: | bcm43xx fails to associate to neither of my APs | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jukka Palko <jpalko> |
| Component: | wireless-tools | Assignee: | Christopher Aillon <caillon> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2007-04-30 04:40:44 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Jukka Palko
2007-04-29 05:18:10 UTC
I was checking out my messages now and I had these complaints in it: Apr 29 18:13:43 ibookg4 kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected Apr 29 18:13:43 ibookg4 kernel: bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x15f, pl 0x7e (2006-07-29 05:54:02) Apr 29 18:13:44 ibookg4 kernel: bcm43xx: Firmware: no support for microcode extracted from version 4.x binary drivers. Apr 29 18:13:44 ibookg4 kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-95) Apr 29 18:13:46 ibookg4 NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan(): could not trigger wireless scan on device e th1: No such device Apr 29 18:13:50 ibookg4 NetworkManager: <info> Updating allowed wireless network lists. Apr 29 18:13:50 ibookg4 NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_dbus_get_networks_cb(): error received: org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo .NoNetworks - There are no wireless networks stored.. Apr 29 18:15:46 ibookg4 kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected Apr 29 18:15:46 ibookg4 kernel: bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x15f, pl 0x7e (2006-07-29 05:54:02) Apr 29 18:15:46 ibookg4 kernel: bcm43xx: Firmware: no support for microcode extracted from version 4.x binary drivers. Apr 29 18:15:46 ibookg4 kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-95) Apr 29 18:15:48 ibookg4 NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan(): could not trigger wireless scan on device e th1: No such device Apr 29 18:17:48 ibookg4 kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected Apr 29 18:17:48 ibookg4 kernel: bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x15f, pl 0x7e (2006-07-29 05:54:02) Apr 29 18:17:49 ibookg4 kernel: bcm43xx: Firmware: no support for microcode extracted from version 4.x binary drivers. Apr 29 18:17:49 ibookg4 kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-95) Apr 29 18:17:51 ibookg4 NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan(): could not trigger wireless scan on device e th1: No such device I'm guessing this doesn't work even without NM. Basically, you're missing the firmware for it... You need to get it for the driver before it can work... Actually I did have one, this one: http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 But apparently that wasn't the right one even though I kept getting FIRMWARE TOO OLD remarks from a wl_apsta.o file that I had downloaded earlier. Okay, tried this morning the one from OS X: [root@ibookg4 ~]# bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware AppleAirPort2 filename : AppleAirPort2 version : 3.90.34.0.p18 (405.1) MD5 : 85c71d658b650fd2ef546d1d81b113a0 microcodes : 2 4 5 pcms : 4 5 WARNING! This firmware doesn't include support for 802.11a cards. WARNING! Use this firmware only for 802.11b/g cards. microcode : 2 revision : 0x0122 patchlevel : 0x009a date : 2005-08-15 time : 18:44:03 microcode : 4 revision : 0x0122 patchlevel : 0x009a date : 2005-08-15 time : 18:44:03 microcode : 5 revision : 0x0122 patchlevel : 0x009a date : 2005-08-15 time : 18:44:03 extracting bcm43xx_microcode2.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_microcode4.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_microcode5.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_pcm4.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_pcm5.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval01.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval02.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval05.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval06.fw ... It worked. :) And this is actually weird, the wl_apsta.o from http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/bcm43xx device firmware heading didn't work for me earlier, but now it does as well. Earlier I kept getting complains about it being too old into messages. Perhaps they have upgraded the file there recently. Now if my other really annoying bug with function keys not doing what they are supposed to be doing goes away, I'm a very happy camper with fedora 7. Yeah, the bcm firmwares are really annoying since there's so many ones and you need to get the right one. Did you file a bug for the other issue? Sure did, though in retrospect the Summary name could be better changed a bit and the component is wrong. Bug 238338. Cool. Thanks. You don't happen to have hints on getting the WPA beast working on this one? It works okay on OS X and I've gotten it to work on fc6 and others, but doesn't want to happen on f7. |