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[Bug 384210] New: Regression: b43 driver don't work
  • From: bugzilla_noreply@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:12:02 -0600 (MDT)
  • Message-id: <bug-384210-21960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/>
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=384210


Summary: Regression: b43 driver don't work
Product: openSUSE 11.0
Version: Beta 1
Platform: i386
OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0
Status: NEW
Severity: Major
Priority: P5 - None
Component: Other
AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ReportedBy: zuntrak@xxxxxxxxx
QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
Found By: Other


In opensuse 10.3, my wireless card is controled by the bcm43xx driver, after
the installation of the firmware, the hardware works well. But opensuse
11.0-beta1 uses the b43 driver and I tried a lot of ways but the hardware don't
works; i change to the b43legacy driver, installed the firmwares and still
don't work my wireless card.

Some usefull information:

-I am using a acer aspire 5710z laptop

-lspci:
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit
Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev
01)

-iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.


wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

- the 'iwlist wlan0 scan' works and i can see the accespoints but
knetworkmanager shows nothing

-dhclient:
dhclient
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wmaster0_rename: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0_rename: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:19:7e:aa:37:89
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:19:7e:aa:37:89
Bind socket to interface: No such device

If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please
get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before
requesting help.

If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not
yet read the README, please read it before requesting help.
If you intend to request help from the dhcp-server@xxxxxxx
mailing list, please read the section on the README about
submitting bug reports and requests for help.

Please do not under any circumstances send requests for
help directly to the authors of this software - please
send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in
the README file.

exiting.


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