[Bug 182716] Re: bcm4306 doesn't work with b43 / ssb

[Zack Cornelius]

Ok, so, another confirm, this time with a 4311 rev 2 (Worked fine under
bcm43xx, worked fine under older (2.6.24-5 and 2.6.24-8) kernels.

Card seems to drop connection every 20 minutes or so (actually
deassociates from Access point (despite being less than 15 feet away,
open air)). This reults in NetworkManager showing the card disconnected
(and really annoying me).

I installed the card with b43-fwcutter autoinstalling the firmware

ifconfig:


me at me-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1b:38:8b:80:be  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:21 Base address:0x1000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:35617 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:35617 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1781596 (1.6 MB)  TX bytes:1781596 (1.6 MB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1a:73:b0:8b:1b  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:128413 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:65880 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:142615884 (136.0 MB)  TX bytes:6819396 (6.5 MB)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-1A-73-B0-8B-1B-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

iwconfig:

me at me-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"home"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:0C:E5:51:90:1A   
          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=27 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2346 B   
          Link Quality=71/100  Signal level=-61 dBm  Noise level=-73 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I'll get a dmesg up soon, but includes quite a few lines (1800), many
including reassociate and deassociate(reason 3).

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bcm4306 doesn't work with b43 / ssb
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182716
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