Re: Problem with bcm43xx-80211 Revisited Again

Sunday, 2 September 2007

I too have recently upgraded to this configuration (bcm43xx-8021, version 4
firmware, and FC6).  I also have a wired connection (usually).  The main
lossage I notice is that during boot-up, I see the error messages that 8B06
("Set Mode") 8B20 ("Set Bit Rate") are not recognized commands, and
there is
a long pause and ultimate failure trying to obtain an IP address for eth1
(the wireless interface).  Later on, after being logged in for a while, if I
unplug the wired connection eth0, Network Manager has no problem switching
over to the wireless interface.  However, I have been able to hang the
machine by plugging the ethernet cable back in.

Julius

On 9/1/07, Andrew Robinson <awrobinson-ml(a)nc.rr.com&gt; wrote:
...

 Sorry I dropped off the thread, but Time Warner lost my Internet
 connection for the better part of the week. I appreciate everyone's eyes
 and help so far.

 To summarize, I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.22.2-42.fc6 and then had to
 upgrade to bcm43xx-80211 and version 4 of the drivers for my wireless.
 Now after booting up, the radio is configured (iwconfig) and the adapter
 is configured (ifconfig), but I cannot connect to the Internet. If I run
 'ifup eth1', my network then works. It is as if 'ifconfig' was run
 before 'iwconfig' during the bootup process.

 While my Internet connection was out, I created a work-around. I created
 an init.d script that runs 'ifup' and set it to run just before the
 netfs script. I added 'ifconfig', 'iwconfig', 'iwlist' and
'ping'
 commands before and after the 'ifup' to try to capture the state of the
 interface before and after the 'ifup'. The results are listed below. I
 don't see anything in there to indicate the problem. If any of you guys
 do, please let me know.

 Thanks!

 Andrew Robinson

 Before ifup
 *** iwlist eth1 scan ***
 Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22
 of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
 Some things may be broken...

 eth1      Scan completed :
            Cell 01 - Address: 00:18:39:7A:B4:C0
                      ESSID:"robinson"
                      Mode:Master
                      Channel:6
                      Frequency:2.437 GHz
                      Quality=49/100  Signal level=-49 dBm  Noise
 level=-256 dBm
                      Encryption key:on
                      Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                                24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                                12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                      Extra:tsf=000005d6632d8026
            Cell 02 - Address: 00:16:B6:DB:0B:8C
                      ESSID:"robinson"
                      Mode:Master
                      Channel:6
                      Frequency:2.437 GHz
                      Quality=43/100  Signal level=-58 dBm  Noise
 level=-256 dBm
                      Encryption key:on
                      Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                                24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                                12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                      Extra:tsf=00000027bf2dd0d8

 *** iwconfig ***
 lo        no wireless extensions.

 wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

 Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22
 of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
 Some things may be broken...

 eth0      no wireless extensions.

 eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"robinson"
            Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point:
 00:18:39:7A:B4:C0
            Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
            Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2346 B
            Encryption key:4138-9E74-82F5-7848-53EF-79E1-FE
            Link Quality=49/100  Signal level=-48 dBm  Noise level=-256 dBm
            Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
            Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

 *** ifconfig ***
 eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:96:79:86:70
            inet addr:192.168.1.25  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
            inet6 addr: fe80::290:96ff:fe79:8670/64 Scope:Link
            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
            RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:108 (108.0 b)

 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:747 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:747 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
            RX bytes:1541708 (1.4 MiB)  TX bytes:1541708 (1.4 MiB)

 wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
 00-90-96-79-86-70-E8-1B-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)

 *** ping ***
 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
 From 192.168.1.25 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.25 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.1.25 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

 --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time
 1998ms
 , pipe 3

 After ifup
 *** iwlist eth1 scan ***
 Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22
 of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
 Some things may be broken...

 eth1      Scan completed :
            Cell 01 - Address: 00:18:39:7A:B4:C0
                      ESSID:"robinson"
                      Mode:Master
                      Channel:6
                      Frequency:2.437 GHz
                      Quality=46/100  Signal level=-54 dBm  Noise
 level=-256 dBm
                      Encryption key:on
                      Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                                24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                                12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                      Extra:tsf=000005d6636d05d4
            Cell 02 - Address: 00:16:B6:DB:0B:8C
                      ESSID:"robinson"
                      Mode:Master
                      Channel:6
                      Frequency:2.437 GHz
                      Quality=44/100  Signal level=-57 dBm  Noise
 level=-256 dBm
                      Encryption key:on
                      Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                                24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                                12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                      Extra:tsf=00000027bf6d744b

 *** iwconfig ***
 lo        no wireless extensions.

 wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

 Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22
 of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
 Some things may be broken...

 eth0      no wireless extensions.

 eth1      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"robinson"
            Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point:
 00:18:39:7A:B4:C0
            Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
            Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2346 B
            Encryption key:4138-9E74-82F5-7848-53EF-79E1-FE
            Link Quality=53/100  Signal level=-41 dBm  Noise level=-256 dBm
            Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
            Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

 *** ifconfig ***
 eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:96:79:86:70
            inet addr:192.168.1.25  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
            inet6 addr: fe80::290:96ff:fe79:8670/64 Scope:Link
            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
            RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
            RX bytes:174 (174.0 b)  TX bytes:532 (532.0 b)

 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:886 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets:886 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
            RX bytes:1700068 (1.6 MiB)  TX bytes:1700068 (1.6 MiB)

 wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
 00-90-96-79-86-70-78-FA-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)

 *** ping ***
 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=87.9 ms
 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=72.7 ms
 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=3.32 ms

 --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1999ms
 rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 3.328/54.664/87.904/36.823 ms

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