Activity log for bug #182716

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2008-01-13 23:16:57 Christophe Giboudeaux bug added bug
2008-01-15 17:34:09 Christophe Giboudeaux bug assigned to linux-source-2.6.24 (Ubuntu)
2008-01-16 14:41:18 Christophe Giboudeaux bug added attachment 'dmesg.tar.gz' (Dmesg output.)
2008-01-19 00:06:00 Leann Ogasawara linux: importance Undecided Medium
2008-01-19 00:06:00 Leann Ogasawara linux: assignee ubuntu-kernel-team
2008-01-19 00:06:00 Leann Ogasawara linux: status New Triaged
2008-01-23 00:09:23 Cristian Aravena Romero bug assigned to linux
2008-01-23 11:19:52 Bug Watch Updater linux: status Unknown Fix Released
2008-01-23 12:11:04 Christophe Giboudeaux bug added attachment 'dmesg.txt' (dmesg.txt)
2008-01-23 12:11:27 Christophe Giboudeaux bug added attachment 'lshw.txt' (lshw.txt)
2008-01-23 12:11:46 Christophe Giboudeaux bug added attachment 'ifconfig.txt' (ifconfig.txt)
2008-01-23 12:12:11 Christophe Giboudeaux bug added attachment 'dhcp.txt' (dhcp.txt)
2008-01-27 14:34:33 Marco Cimmino bug added attachment 'hardy_freeze_log' (lock up log)
2008-01-29 04:49:11 moski666@gmail.com bug added attachment 'blacklist' (blacklist)
2008-02-23 21:09:39 Andreas Gnau bug assigned to linux (Mandriva)
2008-02-24 09:50:11 Bug Watch Updater linux: status Unknown Fix Released
2008-03-05 13:46:02 Colin Ian King linux: status Triaged In Progress
2008-03-05 13:46:02 Colin Ian King linux: assignee ubuntu-kernel-team colin-king
2008-03-06 13:54:23 Colin Ian King linux: status In Progress Fix Committed
2008-03-07 16:10:09 Launchpad Janitor linux: status Fix Committed Fix Released
2008-03-21 23:34:43 Leann Ogasawara linux-source-2.6.24: status New Invalid
2008-03-22 18:23:47 Matthew Woerly linux: status Fix Released Confirmed
2008-03-22 23:06:55 monoi linux: status Confirmed Fix Released
2008-03-23 01:57:00 Matthew Woerly linux: status Fix Released Confirmed
2008-03-23 13:43:25 Matthew Woerly title bcm4306 doesn't work with b43 / ssb bcm4306, bcm4309, bcm4311 don't work with b43 / ssb
2008-03-23 14:46:15 Matthew Woerly title bcm4306, bcm4309, bcm4311 don't work with b43 / ssb bcm4306, bcm4309, bcm4311, bcm4312 don't work with b43 / ssb
2008-03-23 15:13:08 Juksu bug added attachment 'WLAN NOT working network-manager 0.6.6-0ubuntu2' (WLAN NOT working network-manager 0.6.6-0ubuntu2)
2008-03-23 15:14:37 Juksu bug added attachment 'WLAN Working network-manager 0.6.6-0ubuntu1' (WLAN Working network-manager 0.6.6-0ubuntu1)
2008-03-24 00:35:50 Matthew Woerly bug added attachment 'Dump' (dmesg and iwconfig)
2008-03-24 02:16:28 naught101 bug added attachment 'dmesg.08.03.24.1301' (dmesg.08.03.24.1301)
2008-03-26 23:16:02 naught101 bug added attachment 'dpkg.log.08.03.26' (dpkg.log.08.03.26)
2008-03-31 16:39:13 Tristan bug added attachment 'unnamed' (unnamed)
2008-04-10 10:36:05 Christophe Giboudeaux description Dist : Hardy 8.04 $ uname -a Linux mokona 2.6.24-4-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 10 23:30:27 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Concerned hardware : 02:09.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03) Subsystem: Linksys Unknown device [1737:0013] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: Memory at fdffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] The concerned card is a Linksys WMP-54g After upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy, I blacklisted the ndiswrapper module and the bcm43xx one to try the b43 one (I used b43-fwcutter and the correct file to extract firmware). After rebooting, the network doesn't work and only does if I unload ohci-hcd, ssb, b43 and modprobe bcm43xx. If I unload everything and modprobe b43 : [ 1696.188497] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 [ 1696.226619] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:02:09.0 [ 1696.254937] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found [ 1696.342897] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple' [ 1696.472470] udev: renamed network interface wmaster0 to eth1 [ 1696.549096] input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input5 [ 772.133199] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready ifconfig -a returns : # ifconfig -a eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0F-66-F2-8E-4A-40-E2-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Packets reçus:0 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000 Octets reçus:0 (0.0 B) Octets transmis:0 (0.0 B) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Packets reçus:0 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000 Octets reçus:0 (0.0 B) Octets transmis:0 (0.0 B) lshw -C network returns : *-network description: Network controller product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 9 bus info: pci@0000:02:09.0 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32 module=ssb *-network description: Wireless interface physical id: 1 logical name: wlan0 serial: 00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g At this point, restarting the network gives : Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6 Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ eth1: unknown hardware address type 801 eth1: unknown hardware address type 801 Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 [cut] No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. and dmesg : [ 2165.226966] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 [ 2165.226977] wlan0: authenticate with AP <the router MAC> [cut 2 lines] [ 2165.826050] wlan0: authentication with AP <the router MAC> timed out -- Now, if I modprobe -r b43 && modprobe bcm43xx : # lshw -C network *-network description: Wireless interface product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 9 bus info: pci@0000:02:09.0 logical name: wlan0 version: 03 serial: 00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bcm43xx driverversion=2.6.24-4-generic ip=192.168.15.1 latency=32 link=yes module=bcm43xx multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b/g Dmesg output : [ 2286.617516] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:09.0 disabled [ 2286.684085] bcm43xx driver [ 2286.695657] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 [ 2286.746964] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to wlan0 [ 2286.747605] prism2usb_init: prism2_usb.o: 0.2.8 Loaded [ 2286.747611] prism2usb_init: dev_info is: prism2_usb [ 2286.747653] usbcore: registered new interface driver prism2_usb [ 2286.995489] bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware [ 2287.207872] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 2287.500654] bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware [ 2287.716373] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready and I have a working network (and reload ohci-hcd). --- Last attempt then : blacklist b43, add bcm43xx in /etc/modules and reboot and it doesn't work. lshw returns «configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32 module=ssb». It is working if I blacklist b43 in /etc/modprobe.d and (very very badly) blacklist ssb (renaming ssb.ko). Only trouble then, ohci-hcd can't load : [ 22.523070] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs [ 22.526435] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub [ 22.536698] usbcore: registered new device driver usb [ 22.541300] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_device_disable [ 22.545038] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_admatch_base [ 22.548913] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_device_enable [ 22.552850] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_driver_unregister [ 22.556937] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol __ssb_driver_register [ 22.561268] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_admatch_size -- I hope this is clear enough :-) Note to Triage Team : This bug is NOT about Ndiswrapper, NOT about bcm43xx and NOT about conflicts users may have with SSB. This bug is about timeout when authentificating with AP when using a bcm4306 rev. 03 card and b43 module. Dist : Hardy 8.04 $ uname -a Linux mokona 2.6.24-4-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 10 23:30:27 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Concerned hardware : 02:09.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03) Subsystem: Linksys Unknown device [1737:0013] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: Memory at fdffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] The concerned card is a Linksys WMP-54g After upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy, I blacklisted the ndiswrapper module and the bcm43xx one to try the b43 one (I used b43-fwcutter and the correct file to extract firmware). After rebooting, the network doesn't work and only does if I unload ohci-hcd, ssb, b43 and modprobe bcm43xx. If I unload everything and modprobe b43 : [ 1696.188497] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 [ 1696.226619] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:02:09.0 [ 1696.254937] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found [ 1696.342897] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple' [ 1696.472470] udev: renamed network interface wmaster0 to eth1 [ 1696.549096] input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input5 [ 772.133199] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready ifconfig -a returns : # ifconfig -a eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0F-66-F2-8E-4A-40-E2-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Packets reçus:0 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000 Octets reçus:0 (0.0 B) Octets transmis:0 (0.0 B) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Packets reçus:0 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000 Octets reçus:0 (0.0 B) Octets transmis:0 (0.0 B) lshw -C network returns : *-network description: Network controller product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 9 bus info: pci@0000:02:09.0 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32 module=ssb *-network description: Wireless interface physical id: 1 logical name: wlan0 serial: 00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g At this point, restarting the network gives : Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6 Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ eth1: unknown hardware address type 801 eth1: unknown hardware address type 801 Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 [cut] No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. and dmesg : [ 2165.226966] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 [ 2165.226977] wlan0: authenticate with AP <the router MAC> [cut 2 lines] [ 2165.826050] wlan0: authentication with AP <the router MAC> timed out -- Now, if I modprobe -r b43 && modprobe bcm43xx : # lshw -C network *-network description: Wireless interface product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 9 bus info: pci@0000:02:09.0 logical name: wlan0 version: 03 serial: 00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bcm43xx driverversion=2.6.24-4-generic ip=192.168.15.1 latency=32 link=yes module=bcm43xx multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b/g Dmesg output : [ 2286.617516] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:09.0 disabled [ 2286.684085] bcm43xx driver [ 2286.695657] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 [ 2286.746964] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to wlan0 [ 2286.747605] prism2usb_init: prism2_usb.o: 0.2.8 Loaded [ 2286.747611] prism2usb_init: dev_info is: prism2_usb [ 2286.747653] usbcore: registered new interface driver prism2_usb [ 2286.995489] bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware [ 2287.207872] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 2287.500654] bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware [ 2287.716373] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready and I have a working network (and reload ohci-hcd). --- Last attempt then : blacklist b43, add bcm43xx in /etc/modules and reboot and it doesn't work. lshw returns «configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32 module=ssb». It is working if I blacklist b43 in /etc/modprobe.d and (very very badly) blacklist ssb (renaming ssb.ko). Only trouble then, ohci-hcd can't load : [ 22.523070] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs [ 22.526435] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub [ 22.536698] usbcore: registered new device driver usb [ 22.541300] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_device_disable [ 22.545038] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_admatch_base [ 22.548913] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_device_enable [ 22.552850] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_driver_unregister [ 22.556937] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol __ssb_driver_register [ 22.561268] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_admatch_size -- I hope this is clear enough :-)
2008-04-10 10:36:05 Christophe Giboudeaux title bcm4306, bcm4309, bcm4311, bcm4312 don't work with b43 / ssb bcm4306, bcm4309, bcm4311, bcm4312 with b43 : Authentification with AP doesn't work.
2008-04-26 15:06:13 Olivier B bug added attachment 'unnamed' (unnamed)
2008-05-15 10:42:27 Mantas Kriaučiūnas bug assigned to linux (Baltix)
2008-05-29 23:46:38 Matthew Woerly description Note to Triage Team : This bug is NOT about Ndiswrapper, NOT about bcm43xx and NOT about conflicts users may have with SSB. This bug is about timeout when authentificating with AP when using a bcm4306 rev. 03 card and b43 module. Dist : Hardy 8.04 $ uname -a Linux mokona 2.6.24-4-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 10 23:30:27 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Concerned hardware : 02:09.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03) Subsystem: Linksys Unknown device [1737:0013] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: Memory at fdffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] The concerned card is a Linksys WMP-54g After upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy, I blacklisted the ndiswrapper module and the bcm43xx one to try the b43 one (I used b43-fwcutter and the correct file to extract firmware). After rebooting, the network doesn't work and only does if I unload ohci-hcd, ssb, b43 and modprobe bcm43xx. If I unload everything and modprobe b43 : [ 1696.188497] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 [ 1696.226619] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:02:09.0 [ 1696.254937] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found [ 1696.342897] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple' [ 1696.472470] udev: renamed network interface wmaster0 to eth1 [ 1696.549096] input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input5 [ 772.133199] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready ifconfig -a returns : # ifconfig -a eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0F-66-F2-8E-4A-40-E2-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Packets reçus:0 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000 Octets reçus:0 (0.0 B) Octets transmis:0 (0.0 B) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Packets reçus:0 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000 Octets reçus:0 (0.0 B) Octets transmis:0 (0.0 B) lshw -C network returns : *-network description: Network controller product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 9 bus info: pci@0000:02:09.0 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32 module=ssb *-network description: Wireless interface physical id: 1 logical name: wlan0 serial: 00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g At this point, restarting the network gives : Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6 Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ eth1: unknown hardware address type 801 eth1: unknown hardware address type 801 Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 [cut] No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. and dmesg : [ 2165.226966] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 [ 2165.226977] wlan0: authenticate with AP <the router MAC> [cut 2 lines] [ 2165.826050] wlan0: authentication with AP <the router MAC> timed out -- Now, if I modprobe -r b43 && modprobe bcm43xx : # lshw -C network *-network description: Wireless interface product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 9 bus info: pci@0000:02:09.0 logical name: wlan0 version: 03 serial: 00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bcm43xx driverversion=2.6.24-4-generic ip=192.168.15.1 latency=32 link=yes module=bcm43xx multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b/g Dmesg output : [ 2286.617516] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:09.0 disabled [ 2286.684085] bcm43xx driver [ 2286.695657] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 [ 2286.746964] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to wlan0 [ 2286.747605] prism2usb_init: prism2_usb.o: 0.2.8 Loaded [ 2286.747611] prism2usb_init: dev_info is: prism2_usb [ 2286.747653] usbcore: registered new interface driver prism2_usb [ 2286.995489] bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware [ 2287.207872] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 2287.500654] bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware [ 2287.716373] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready and I have a working network (and reload ohci-hcd). --- Last attempt then : blacklist b43, add bcm43xx in /etc/modules and reboot and it doesn't work. lshw returns «configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32 module=ssb». It is working if I blacklist b43 in /etc/modprobe.d and (very very badly) blacklist ssb (renaming ssb.ko). Only trouble then, ohci-hcd can't load : [ 22.523070] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs [ 22.526435] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub [ 22.536698] usbcore: registered new device driver usb [ 22.541300] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_device_disable [ 22.545038] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_admatch_base [ 22.548913] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_device_enable [ 22.552850] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_driver_unregister [ 22.556937] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol __ssb_driver_register [ 22.561268] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_admatch_size -- I hope this is clear enough :-) Note to Triage Team : This bug is NOT about Ndiswrapper, NOT about bcm43xx and NOT about conflicts users may have with SSB. This bug is about timeout when authenticating with AP when using a bcm4306 rev. 03 card and b43 module. Dist : Hardy 8.04 $ uname -a Linux mokona 2.6.24-4-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 10 23:30:27 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Concerned hardware : 02:09.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03) Subsystem: Linksys Unknown device [1737:0013] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: Memory at fdffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] The concerned card is a Linksys WMP-54g After upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy, I blacklisted the ndiswrapper module and the bcm43xx one to try the b43 one (I used b43-fwcutter and the correct file to extract firmware). After rebooting, the network doesn't work and only does if I unload ohci-hcd, ssb, b43 and modprobe bcm43xx. If I unload everything and modprobe b43 : [ 1696.188497] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 [ 1696.226619] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:02:09.0 [ 1696.254937] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found [ 1696.342897] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple' [ 1696.472470] udev: renamed network interface wmaster0 to eth1 [ 1696.549096] input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input5 [ 772.133199] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready ifconfig -a returns : # ifconfig -a eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0F-66-F2-8E-4A-40-E2-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Packets reçus:0 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000 Octets reçus:0 (0.0 B) Octets transmis:0 (0.0 B) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Packets reçus:0 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000 Octets reçus:0 (0.0 B) Octets transmis:0 (0.0 B) lshw -C network returns : *-network description: Network controller product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 9 bus info: pci@0000:02:09.0 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32 module=ssb *-network description: Wireless interface physical id: 1 logical name: wlan0 serial: 00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g At this point, restarting the network gives : Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6 Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ eth1: unknown hardware address type 801 eth1: unknown hardware address type 801 Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 [cut] No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. and dmesg : [ 2165.226966] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 [ 2165.226977] wlan0: authenticate with AP <the router MAC> [cut 2 lines] [ 2165.826050] wlan0: authentication with AP <the router MAC> timed out -- Now, if I modprobe -r b43 && modprobe bcm43xx : # lshw -C network *-network description: Wireless interface product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 9 bus info: pci@0000:02:09.0 logical name: wlan0 version: 03 serial: 00:0f:66:f2:8e:4a width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bcm43xx driverversion=2.6.24-4-generic ip=192.168.15.1 latency=32 link=yes module=bcm43xx multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b/g Dmesg output : [ 2286.617516] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:09.0 disabled [ 2286.684085] bcm43xx driver [ 2286.695657] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> Link [APC4] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 [ 2286.746964] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to wlan0 [ 2286.747605] prism2usb_init: prism2_usb.o: 0.2.8 Loaded [ 2286.747611] prism2usb_init: dev_info is: prism2_usb [ 2286.747653] usbcore: registered new interface driver prism2_usb [ 2286.995489] bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware [ 2287.207872] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 2287.500654] bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware [ 2287.716373] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready and I have a working network (and reload ohci-hcd). --- Last attempt then : blacklist b43, add bcm43xx in /etc/modules and reboot and it doesn't work. lshw returns «configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32 module=ssb». It is working if I blacklist b43 in /etc/modprobe.d and (very very badly) blacklist ssb (renaming ssb.ko). Only trouble then, ohci-hcd can't load : [ 22.523070] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs [ 22.526435] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub [ 22.536698] usbcore: registered new device driver usb [ 22.541300] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_device_disable [ 22.545038] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_admatch_base [ 22.548913] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_device_enable [ 22.552850] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_driver_unregister [ 22.556937] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol __ssb_driver_register [ 22.561268] ohci_hcd: Unknown symbol ssb_admatch_size -- I hope this is clear enough :-)
2008-05-29 23:46:38 Matthew Woerly title bcm4306, bcm4309, bcm4311, bcm4312 with b43 : Authentification with AP doesn't work. bcm4306, bcm4309, bcm4311, bcm4312 with b43 : Authentication with AP doesn't work.
2008-08-12 14:28:51 Larry Finger bug added attachment 'ben_warren_new' (Updated SPROM contents for Ben Warren)
2008-08-14 20:28:03 Larry Finger bug added attachment 'nattgew_sprom_new' (Revised SPROM contents.)
2008-08-15 00:32:18 Matthew Woerly bug added attachment 'v' (syslog of connection)
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