Fedora 9 Wireless Broadcom

[Alan]

> lspci
> 01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG
> wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)

Why are you using the old firmware?  You need to get the 4.x firmware for
that chipset for it to work well/correctly or use the old legacy driver.

>
> dmesg (snipped)
>
> ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
> nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (12288 buckets, 49152 max)
> NET: Registered protocol family 10
> lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
> Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -222694413 ns)
> input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input11
> b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 351.126 (2006-07-29
> 05:54:02)
> b43-phy0 warning: You are using an old firmware image.
> Support for old firmware will be removed in July 2008.
> b43-phy0 warning: You must go to
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware
> and download the latest firmware (version 4).
> b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized
> b43-phy0 debug: 32-bit DMA initialized
> Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
> Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
> Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
> b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started
> b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
> b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx:
> 0, mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> type=1400 audit(1211359283.358:4): avc:  denied  { read }
> for  pid=2039 comm="consoletype"
> path="/var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-wlan0.leases" dev=dm-0
> ino=86870 scontext=system_u:system_r:consoletype_t:s0
> tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:dhcpc_state_t:s0 tclass=file
> type=1400 audit(1211359283.406:5): avc:  denied  { read }
> for  pid=2064 comm="ifconfig"
> path="/var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-wlan0.leases" dev=dm-0
> ino=86870 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0
> tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:dhcpc_state_t:s0 tclass=file
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> RPC: Registered udp transport module.
> RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
>
>
> lshw (snipped)
> *-network
>        description: Wireless interface
>        physical id: 1
>        logical name: wlan0
>        serial: 00:19:7e:84:ed:15
>        capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
>        configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes
> wireless=IEEE 802.11
>
> b43-fwcutter-011-3.fc9.i386
>
>
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