help debug bwn(4) wireless

Buganini buganini at gmail.com
Fri May 4 23:30:18 UTC 2012


how about
`ifconfig wlan0 mode 11b`

11g sticks very soon for me and some other people.

Regards,
Buganini

2012/5/5 Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk>:
> I've US Robotics 5411 wireless pccard device.
> It's identified as:
>
> # pciconf -lv
> *skip*
> siba_bwn0 at pci0:3:0:0:   class=0x028000 card=0x431814e4 chip=0x431814e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
>    device     = 'BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller'
>    class      = network
>
> and from dmesg:
>
> siba_bwn0: <Broadcom BCM4318 802.11b/g Wireless> mem 0xcc502000-0xcc503fff irq 20 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
> bwn0 on siba_bwn0
> bwn0: WLAN (chipid 0x4318 rev 9) PHY (analog 3 type 2 rev 7) RADIO (manuf 0x17f ver 0x2050 rev 8)
> bwn0: DMA (32 bits)
>
> I've build a kernel with bwn(4),
> loaded the firmware module:
>
> # kldstat
> Id Refs Address            Size     Name
>  1    4 0xffffffff80200000 104fb98  kernel
>  2    1 0xffffffff81412000 28aa1    bwn_v4_ucode.ko
> #
>
> I created wlan device:
>
> bwn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>        ether 00:c0:49:58:00:fe
>        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
>        status: associated
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>        ether 00:c0:49:58:00:fe
>        inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g
>        status: associated
>        ssid lagartixa channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g) bssid 00:18:39:e6:46:b6
>        country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
>        AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 30 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan
>        bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS
>        wme roaming MANUAL
>
> I run wpa_supplicant:
>
> # wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> Trying to associate with 00:18:39:e6:46:b6 (SSID='lagartixa' freq=2462 MHz)
> Associated with 00:18:39:e6:46:b6
> WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:18:39:e6:46:b6 [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP]
> CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:18:39:e6:46:b6 completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=]
>
> I got issued the ip address by my wireless router.
>
> I see the card on the router:
>
> DHCP Active IP Table
> DHCP Server IP Address:   192.168.1.1
> Client Host Name        IP Address      MAC Address             Expires
>                        192.168.1.104   00:c0:49:58:00:fe       23:58:54
>
>
> I get /etc/resolve.conf set up automatically
> (through the wired connection):
>
> % cat /etc/resolv.conf
> # Generated by resolvconf
> search cable.virginmedia.net
> nameserver 194.168.4.100
> nameserver 194.168.8.100
>
>
> But I just can't get the wireless connection,
> even to the router:
>
> % ping 192.168.1.1
> PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: No route to host
> ping: sendto: No route to host
> ^C
>
> On the console I see:
>
> RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1)
> RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1)
> RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1)
> RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1)
> firmware version (rev 410 patch 2160 date 0x751a time 0x7c0a)
>
>
> Please help
>
> What am I doing wrong?
> What else can I try?
>
> Many thanks
>
> --
> Anton Shterenlikht
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