bcm43xx_mac80211 (was Re: Announcing Fedora 7 Test 4 (6.93))

Jarod Wilson jwilson at redhat.com
Wed May 2 00:09:37 UTC 2007


Miles Lane wrote:
> On 5/1/07, Jarod Wilson <jwilson at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Miles Lane wrote:
>> > On 5/1/07, Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 09:13 -0700, alan wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > The network config tools need some work.  (Especially for 
>> Wireless.)  I
>> >> > have been trying to get my bcm4306 chipset wireless to work.  The
>> >> network
>> >> > tools don't see it.  (And I have the firmware that I used on FC6
>> >> with no
>> >> > problems.)  The list of wireless cards in the drop down list 
>> seems very
>> >> > old.  It needs to be updated to the currently supported list.  (As
>> >> much as
>> >> > wireless is at this point...)
>> >>
>> >> Yeah, you'll want to use NetworkManager to manage the device. First 
>> you
>> >> will need firmware:
>> >>
>> >> 1) Install bcm43xx-fwcutter
>> >> 2) Get a Broadcom-distributed driver to cut the firmware out of
>> >> # See the list in /usr/share/doc/bcm43xx-fwcutter-006/README
>> >> # For the newer driver you'll need 4.x firmware. I recommend:
>> >> http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
>> >
>> > I'll try this, but I suspect it won't work, because I have a pretty
>> > old bcm4306 PCI card in my desktop machine.  Last time I checked, my
>> > card isn't supported by the 4.x firmware.   :-(
>>
>> Works fine with the bcm4306 in my powerbook.
> 
> It probably still won't work for my card.  The card revision matters.
> 
> I found this statement online:
> "> There is a revision number which is the key for v4 suppport. You'll need
>> at least revision number 0x4 there for d80211 support. The older
>> revisions 0x2 and 0x3 have to use the softmac stack."
> 
> My PCI card is a Linksys card with bcm4306 revision 3.
> Gak!

I swear my card is a revision 2, and Will Woods has a revision 1, and 
both of them work with the new driver and firmware. Excerpt from bug 233011:

Mar 19 16:04:55 albook kernel: bcm43xx_mac80211: Found PHY: Analog 1, 
Type 2, Revision 1

Perhaps you have a type 1, revision 3? That, or the revision level in 
this case is something entirely different and I have no clue what I'm 
talking about. (Always a possibility! :)

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Jarod Wilson
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