Bug 674900 - Wifi Card cannot scan networks
Summary: Wifi Card cannot scan networks
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 14
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-03 17:18 UTC by David Dreggors
Modified: 2011-02-23 14:12 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-02-23 14:12:21 UTC
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Description David Dreggors 2011-02-03 17:18:18 UTC
Description of problem:
I have a Broadcom wifi card (lspci reports as BCM43225). This card is supported by the broadcom-wl driver. The driver loads and I can see the card as eth1. I can use iwconfig to get info from the driver but when I run iwlist eth1 scan I always get the return "eth1 No scan results". Subsequently NetworkManager can never see networks to connect to.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):



How reproducible:
Every time in x86_64 and i386 (LiveCD and Full Install). 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install 'broadcom-wl, kmod-wl, kmod-wl-$(uname -r)
2. modprobe wl
3. iwlist eth1 scan
  
Actual results:
"eth1 No scan results"

Expected results:
List of available wifi networks and their info

Additional info:

rfkill does not seem to load at all for this driver. Running "rfkill list" returns and error saying that the rfkill module is not loaded. Once I manually modprobe rfkill and run the "rfkill list" command again now that it is loaded I get no results and it just drops to the next line.


# iwlist eth1 scan
eth1 No scan results

# iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated 
Bit Rate:16 Mb/s Tx-Power:24 dBm 
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0



lspci -nnvv shows:

07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4357] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e021]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: Memory at f0500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [d0] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
DevCap:	MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <4us, L1 unlimited
ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
DevCtl:	Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
DevSta:	CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr+ TransPend-
LnkCap:	Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <4us, L1 <64us
ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep+ BwNot-
LnkCtl:	ASPM L0s L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
ExtSynch- ClockPM+ AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
LnkSta:	Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive+ BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: wl

Comment 1 Stanislaw Gruszka 2011-02-23 14:12:21 UTC
I'm sorry, we do not support broadcom-wl driver, you have ask driver vendor for help.


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