broadcom radio off in dmesg

[David G. Miller]

I'm not going to repost your whole dmesg but I'll give you some comments 
on the "interesting" parts.

Jerry W. Whitmire wrote:

>bcm43xx driver
>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
>bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3
>bcm43xx: Number of cores: 5
>bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243, enabled
>bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5, vendor 0x4243, disabled
>bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, enabled
>bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, disabled
>bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, enabled
>bcm43xx: PHY connected
>bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 2, Type 2, Revision 2
>bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2)
>bcm43xx: Radio turned off
>bcm43xx: Radio turned off
>
I get the identical output on my HP laptop right down to the repeated 
"bcm43xx: Radio turned off".  The next lines from bcm43xx are where 
things diverge:

Jerry W. Whitmire wrote:

>eth0: link down
>ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
>bcm43xx: set security called
>bcm43xx:    .level = 0
>bcm43xx:    .enabled = 0
>bcm43xx:    .encrypt = 0
>SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
>SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up?
>bcm43xx: PHY connected
>bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
>
I'm having trouble with WEP authentication (still) but the corresponding 
dmesg section for me is:

bcm43xx: set security called
bcm43xx:    .active_key = 0
bcm43xx:    .level = 1
bcm43xx:    .enabled = 1
bcm43xx:    .encrypt = 1
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up?
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Radio turned on
bcm43xx: Chip initialized
bcm43xx: DMA initialized
bcm43xx: 80211 cores initialized
bcm43xx: Keys cleared
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to 00:12:17:7a:b6:f6
SoftMAC: cannot associate without being authenticated, requested 
authentication
SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to 00:12:17:7a:b6:f6
SoftMAC: cannot associate without being authenticated, requested 
authentication
SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:12:17:7a:b6:f6.
SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:12:17:7a:b6:f6.
SoftMAC: Open Authentication with 00:12:17:7a:b6:f6 failed, error code: 13
SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:12:17:7a:b6:f6 but did 
not request authentication.
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 1/64
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0260 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0220 (TX) max used slots: 2/512
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/512

On your box I'm guessing that the driver isn't finding the firmware or 
there is some problem with the firmware based on the:

bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.

message.  Check the documentation that came with the fwcutter utility 
and see if you have the firmware in the correct directory, right 
permissions, etc.

Cheers,
Dave

P.S. BTW, the odd salutation ("Did you ever get an answer on this?") was 
due to me running across your posting on http://fcp.homelinux.org/ and 
me miss-reading the date.  I get digests and I thought I'd missed your 
post.   Had a good laugh when I saw my response and your original in the 
same digest batch.

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