bcm43xx driver on FC5T3 driver doesn't work and freeze my machine.

Tue Feb 28 07:28:22 UTC 2006

Hi!
I'am very excited with the inclusion of the bcm43xx driver in FC5 , I
want to replace the venerable but awkward ndiswrapper driver,
unfortunately the driver doesn't work for me and freeze my computer:

I have a laptop DELL Precision M60 with :
# lspci -vvv
...
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

        Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN Mini-PCI Card
        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 5
        Region 0: Memory at fafec000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]

1- I downloaded the newest driver from DELL:R115321.EXE (dated Jan-06-2006)
[albertop at amturing driver]$ cat Version.txt
Title      : Network:Dell _Wireless (US) WLAN Network Adapter Card,
TrueMobile 1300 b/g PCMCIA, TrueMobile 1300 Internal b/g MPCI,
TrueMobile 1400 Internal Dual-band WLAN Card , Wireless 1350(b/g)WLAN
miniPCI Card, Wireless 1370 (b/g)WLAN MiniPCI Card, Wireless 1390
(802.11g) WLAN MiniCard, Wireless 1390 WLAN (802.11g) ExpressCard,
Wireless 1450 (a/b/g) Dual-Band WLAN miniPCI Card, Wireless 1470
(a/b/g) Dual-Band WLAN miniPCI card, Wireless 1490 (802.11a/g)
Dual-Band WLAN MiniCard, Wireless� 1350 WLAN (b/g) PC Card Driver
Version    : A09
OEM Name   : Dell
OEM Ver    : 4.10.40.0 / 4.10.47.3
Computers  : 1D7, 6400/E1505, ME051, MXC051, MXC061, MXG051;
Inspiron - 1000, 1100, 1150, 1200, Inspiron - 2200, 300m, 500m, 5100,
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9200, 9300, 9400/E1705, B120, Inspiron - XPS, XPS Gen 2;
Latitude - 100L, 110L, 120L , D400, D410, D420, D500, D505, D510,
D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, D810, D820, X1, X300;
Precision - M20, M60, M65, M70, M90;
XPS - M1710, M2010,
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Languages  : Brazilian
Portuguese,Chinese-S,Chinese-T,English,French,German,Italian,Japanese,Korean,Polish,Russian,Spanish,Swedish
Created    : Fri Jan 6 11:45:40 CST 2006

2. I run fwcutter:
[root at amturing bcm43xx-fwcutter-003]# bcm43xx-fwcutter bcmwl5.sys
fwcutter can cut the firmware out of bcmwl5.sys
  filename :  bcmwl5.sys
  version  :  4.10.40.0
  MD5      :  30d20fc98bcfd52e1da778cf19b223d4

extracting bcm43xx_microcode2.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode5.fw ...
*****: Sorry, it's not posible to extract "bcm43xx_microcode11.fw".
*****: Extracting firmware from an old driver is bad. Choose a more recent one.
*****: Luckily bcm43xx driver doesn't include microcode11 uploads at the moment.
*****: But this can be added in the future...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm5.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval01.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval02.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval03.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval04.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval05.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval06.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval07.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval08.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval09.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval10.fw ...

3- I installed the firwware to /lib/firmware
[root at amturing bcm43xx-fwcutter-003]# make installfw
if ! [ -d /lib/firmware ]; then mkdir /lib/firmware; fi
install -o 0 -g 0 -m 600 bcm43xx_*.fw /lib/firmware

4 Restart my machine.
[root at amturing bcm43xx-fwcutter-003]# iwconfig

eth1      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Invalid   Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
          Tx-Power=off
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off

I run manually:
iwconfig eth1 essid ..
iwconfig eth1 rate 11Mb
iwconfig eth1 mode Managed
iwconfig eth1 ap 00:0d:72:7c:24:c9
iwconfig eth1 key restricted 00000000

I run again iwconfig ans I see again: Access Point invalid

The worst thing is when I do a
iwlist eth1 scan

My computer freeze and iwlist says something like eth1 no such device!!!!

The last thing logged before the freeze:
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: set security called
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx:    .active_key = 0
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx:    .level = 1
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx:    .enabled = 1
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx:    .encrypt = 1
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for
networks first.
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: failed to
initiate scan. Is device up?
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned on
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Chip initialized
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA initialized
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: 80211 cores initialized
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Keys cleared

This is info  from my /var/log/messages at startup:

Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: ieee80211: 802.11
data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005
Intel Corporation <jketreno at linux.intel.com>
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx driver
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A]
-> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Number of cores: 5
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x4,
vendor 0x4243, enabled
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5,
vendor 0x4243, disabled
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x2,
vendor 0x4243, enabled
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x2,
vendor 0x4243, disabled
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x9,
vendor 0x4243, enabled
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 2,
Type 2, Revision 2
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Detected Radio:  ID:
2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2)
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x3d4-0x4ff: clean.
Feb 27 23:38:25 amturing kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x3c0-0x3d2: clean.

Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off
Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 0/64
Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0260 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0220 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
Feb 28 00:10:38 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
Feb 28 00:11:32 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: set security called
Feb 28 00:11:32 amturing kernel: bcm43xx:    .active_key = 0
Feb 28 00:11:32 amturing kernel: bcm43xx:    .level = 1
Feb 28 00:11:32 amturing kernel: bcm43xx:    .enabled = 1
Feb 28 00:11:32 amturing kernel: bcm43xx:    .encrypt = 1

Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: set security called
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx:    .active_key = 0
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx:    .level = 1
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx:    .enabled = 1
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx:    .encrypt = 1
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for
networks first.
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: failed to
initiate scan. Is device up?
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned on
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Chip initialized
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: DMA initialized
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: 80211 cores initialized
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: Keys cleared
Feb 28 00:22:03 amturing kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready

I tried disabling encription in my AP but this didn't work neither.
By the way my acces point is a 2Wire Appliance

Other messages that i recover from messages before a freeze:

Freeze n-2:
Feb 27 22:56:35 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at:
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:403:bcm43xx_plcp_get_bitrate()
Feb 27 23:08:09 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at:
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:403:bcm43xx_plcp_get_bitrate()

Freeze n-1:
Feb 27 23:32:35 amturing kernel: bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at:
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:403:bcm43xx_plcp_get_bitrate()

I'd like to fix the problem, but I don't know what else to do!

Thanks for your help
Alberto Patino