Failing to Configure Wireless Network w/ b43legacy

Ian

I have a BCM4306 Rev 02 card, using b43legacy as a driver. I had everything working great, until one night last week everything just stopped working. Right now when I try to initialize the wireless network I get this.

kds66 · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject:

Did you update the kernel? Are you using wpa_supplicant? Anything in /var/log/messages that might give additional clues?

For me the native drivers work reasonably fine with kernel 2.6.24 and very well with kernel 2.6.26. I use b43 instead b43-legacy, though.

Ian · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject:

Updated kernel to use b43legacy, haven't touched the kernel since though (and it was working). Using wireless-tools as my roommate's router is "only" using WEP, but we're not too afraid of wardrivers. Didn't notice anything in /var/log/messages, but I can look again tonight. The problem I'm having is the lack of any weird error messages that tell me useful errors.

Btw, I'm using b43legacy because of my card, otherwise the drivers should behave the same from what I understand.

defenderBG · l33t Joined: 20 Jun 2006 Posts: 817

You need to recompile net-wireless/b43-fwcutter (not 100% sure, but it is worth a try) and if you use ndiswrapper (100% sure) every time you compile the kernel. There was a command for recompiling the needed packages after compiling the kernel. Can't remember the name :/

if it did not work...need more info:
lspci -vnn (just the broadcom part)
rmmod b43-legacy
modprobe b43-legacy
dmesg | tail
iwconfig
This will give us some more info on where to search the problem.

Ian · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:40 pm Post subject:

So I took a look at /var/log/messages and it's telling me that the authentication to the AP is timing out. From that, obviously it's not going to get an IP. I apologize for no straight logs, but as I have no internet on the computer in question...hard to get logs off of it beyond sneakernet...which requires a usb stick...which is currently missing...

I tried recompiling b43-fwcutter and re-cutting firmware, seems to not work any better.

IvanMajhen · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2006 Posts: 392 Location: Croatia

Show some b43 related dmesg....

kds66 · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:12 pm Post subject:

As the stuff was working previously I'd recommend to investigate what exactly changed: software, configuration, router configuration. Perhaps something as stupid as the key was changed on the access point? :)