[SOLVED] bcm4322 issues

[socr0819]

new gentoo load on my dell precision m4400 laptop. been away for gentoo from quite some time and now i'm coming back

lspci:
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

have installed broadcom-sta and met all the requirements (no ssb ...etc). have added wl to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

when i try iwlist eth1 scan, it returns the following: eth1 Failed to read scan data : Invalid argument

iwconfig eth1 returns:

eth1 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:44 Mb/s Tx-Power:24 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

wpa_supplicant / wpa_gui shows no adapters.

[eyoung100]

Please post output of:

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cat /etc/conf.d/net

[socr0819]

# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa_supplicant_eth1="-Dwext"
config_eth1=( "dhcp" )

[eyoung100]

Modify your modules kibe to read:

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modules=( "iwconfig" "wpa_supplicant")

then:

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/etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart

I need the error output after restarting service

[socr0819]

Modify your modules kibe to read:

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modules=( "iwconfig" "wpa_supplicant")

then:

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/etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart

I need the error output after restarting service

m4400 init.d # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart
* Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
* Starting eth1
* Configuring wireless network for eth1
* eth1 does not support scanning
* You either need to set a preferred_aps list in /etc/conf.d/wireless
* preferred_aps=( "ESSID1" "ESSID2" )
* and set associate_order_eth1="forcepreferred"
* or set associate_order_eth1="forcepreferredonly"
* or hardcode the ESSID to "any" and let the driver find an Access Point
* essid_eth1="any"
* or configure defaulting to Ad-Hoc when Managed fails
* adhoc_essid_eth1="WLAN"
* or hardcode the ESSID against the interface (not recommended)
* essid_eth1="ESSID"
* Failed to configure wireless for eth1 [ !! ]
m4400 init.d #

[eyoung100]

ok that error tells me iwconfig is now loaded properly so now add the settings in /etc/conf.d/wireless or /etc/conf.d/net See:
Gentoo Documentation, Wireless Networking, Chapter 4

[socr0819]

ok that error tells me iwconfig is now loaded properly so now add the settings in /etc/conf.d/wireless or /etc/conf.d/net See:
Gentoo Documentation, Wireless Networking, Chapter 4

why would i not see the adapter in wpa_gui? the status message in there is 'Could not get status from wpa_supplicant'. i'm also wondering why it says scanning is not supported.

[eyoung100]

ok that error tells me iwconfig is now loaded properly so now add the settings in /etc/conf.d/wireless or /etc/conf.d/net See:
Gentoo Documentation, Wireless Networking, Chapter 4

why would i not see the adapter in wpa_gui? the status message in there is 'Could not get status from wpa_supplicant'. i'm also wondering why it says scanning is not supported.

Just to make sure, lets check the driver chipset against their website. Please:

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lspci | grep Wireless

The official website is Linux Wireless:b43

[socr0819]

ok that error tells me iwconfig is now loaded properly so now add the settings in /etc/conf.d/wireless or /etc/conf.d/net See:
Gentoo Documentation, Wireless Networking, Chapter 4

why would i not see the adapter in wpa_gui? the status message in there is 'Could not get status from wpa_supplicant'. i'm also wondering why it says scanning is not supported.

Just to make sure, lets check the driver chipset against their website. Please:

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lspci | grep Wireless

The official website is Linux Wireless:b43

0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

[eyoung100]

Is this what you downloaded:
Broadcom: Linux STA in which the Tarball contains a README

Just so we're on the same page, I apologize if I am going over stuff you have already done?

Could you post your emerge --info?

[socr0819]

Is this what you downloaded:
Broadcom: Linux STA in which the Tarball contains a README

Just so we're on the same page, I apologize if I am going over stuff you have already done?

Could you post your emerge --info?

yes, i did emerge broadcom-sta (did not download directly). here's emerge info:

m4400 eric # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r6-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9550_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:15:02 +0000
app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11
dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b
sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="C"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl alsa automount bash-completion berkdb bidi bluetooth bluray bzip2 cairo cdda cddax cddb cdio cdr cdrdao cdrom cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dell device-mapper dhcpcd dri dts dvd dvdr extras ffmpeg firefox firefox3 flac fortran gdbm gdu gif gnome gnutls gpm gtk hal httpd iconv ioctl ipv6 jpeg laptop libnotify live mad matroska modules mp3 mp4 mpeg msn mudflap ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openmp pam pcre perl playlist png policykit pppd prediction python qt4 readline reflection session spell sqlite ssl stream svga symlink sysfs tcl tcpd theora threads tk truetype udev unicode upnp usb vcd vlm vorbis wifi wma wxwidgets x264 x86 xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[eyoung100]

Did it build correctly when you emerged it?

[socr0819]

Did it build correctly when you emerged it?

yes. no errors. i made sure the CONFIG_SSB and other items it recommended not be in the kernel.

[eyoung100]

Looks like the ebuild only supports up to kernel 2.6.33, which is branch 1, after reading the README I linked earlier (thought). According to the changelog it works with 2.6.35, which means we could also upgrade

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pkg_setup() {
    check_license

    # bug #300570
    # NOTE<lxnay>: module builds correctly anyway with b43 and SSB enabled
    # make checks non-fatal. The correct fix is blackisting ssb and, perhaps
    # b43 via udev rules. Moreover, previous fix broke binpkgs support.
    CONFIG_CHECK="~!B43 ~!SSB"
    if kernel_is ge 2 6 33; then
        CONFIG_CHECK="${CONFIG_CHECK} LIB80211 WIRELESS_EXT CFG80211_WEXT WEXT_PRIV ~!MAC80211"
        ERROR_WEXT_PRIV="Starting with 2.6.33, it is not possible to set WEXT_PRIV directly. We recommend to set another symbol selecting WEXT_PRIV, for example, PRISM54, IPW2200 and so on. See Bug #248450 comment#98."
    elif kernel_is ge 2 6 31; then
        CONFIG_CHECK="${CONFIG_CHECK} LIB80211 WIRELESS_EXT ~!MAC80211"
    elif kernel_is ge 2 6 29; then
        CONFIG_CHECK="${CONFIG_CHECK} LIB80211 WIRELESS_EXT ~!MAC80211 COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS"
    else
        CONFIG_CHECK="${CONFIG_CHECK} IEEE80211 IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP"
    fi
    linux-mod_pkg_setup

Let's see if we can get it operating manually, before we do something like a kernel downgrade,branch 2 (thought)

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/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop
iwconfig essid NetworkName ap auto channel auto txpower on
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

[socr0819]

Looks like the ebuild only supports up to kernel 2.6.33, which is branch 1, after reading the README I linked earlier (thought). According to the changelog it works with 2.6.35, which means we could also upgrade

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pkg_setup() {
    check_license

    # bug #300570
    # NOTE<lxnay>: module builds correctly anyway with b43 and SSB enabled
    # make checks non-fatal. The correct fix is blackisting ssb and, perhaps
    # b43 via udev rules. Moreover, previous fix broke binpkgs support.
    CONFIG_CHECK="~!B43 ~!SSB"
    if kernel_is ge 2 6 33; then
        CONFIG_CHECK="${CONFIG_CHECK} LIB80211 WIRELESS_EXT CFG80211_WEXT WEXT_PRIV ~!MAC80211"
        ERROR_WEXT_PRIV="Starting with 2.6.33, it is not possible to set WEXT_PRIV directly. We recommend to set another symbol selecting WEXT_PRIV, for example, PRISM54, IPW2200 and so on. See Bug #248450 comment#98."
    elif kernel_is ge 2 6 31; then
        CONFIG_CHECK="${CONFIG_CHECK} LIB80211 WIRELESS_EXT ~!MAC80211"
    elif kernel_is ge 2 6 29; then
        CONFIG_CHECK="${CONFIG_CHECK} LIB80211 WIRELESS_EXT ~!MAC80211 COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS"
    else
        CONFIG_CHECK="${CONFIG_CHECK} IEEE80211 IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP"
    fi
    linux-mod_pkg_setup

Let's see if we can get it operating manually, before we do something like a kernel downgrade,branch 2 (thought)

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/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop
iwconfig essid NetworkName ap auto channel auto txpower on
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

no joy. line returns like (command successful), but no txpower

[eyoung100]

try:

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/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop
iwconfig eth0 essid NetworkName ap auto txpower auto channel auto
iwconfig eth0 (I want to see this one.)
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

If txpower auto doesn't turn it on then we need to finagle with kernel versions, and I hate that...

[socr0819]

try:

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/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop
iwconfig eth0 essid NetworkName ap auto txpower auto channel auto
iwconfig eth0 (I want to see this one.)
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

If txpower auto doesn't turn it on then we need to finagle with kernel versions, and I hate that...

m4400 eric # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 stop
* WARNING: net.eth1 has not yet been started.
m4400 eric # iwconfig eth1 channel auto
Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.
m4400 eric # iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:16 Mb/s Tx-Power:off
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

m4400 eric #

[eyoung100]

Run the command all as one. We won't get anywhere until the txpower is on. Since this driver does not support scanning channel auto is not functioning. Try

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iwconfig eth0 txpower auto && iwconfig eth0 essid NetworkName && iwconfig eth0

Post your output as txpower is the one that counts.

[socr0819]

Run the command all as one. We won't get anywhere until the txpower is on. Since this driver does not support scanning channel auto is not functioning. Try

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iwconfig eth0 txpower auto && iwconfig eth0 essid NetworkName && iwconfig eth0

Post your output as txpower is the one that counts.

iwconfig eth1 txpower auto && iwconfig eth1 essid gentoo && iwconfig eth1
Error for wireless request "Set Tx Power" (8B26) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.

still no joy. thinking i might be better off trying the broadcom-sta package from broadcom? gentoo-sources hasn't been updated to 2.6.35 yet ...so i might have to wait it out... or file a bugreport?

[socr0819]

tried broadcom-sta from broadcom's site and it fails to compile. decided to give ndiswrapper a go using the broadcom drivers on dell's website and they worked like a champ. i was able to txpower on (see the motherboard light come on) which is great! going to give it a few more tests and i'll be ready to call this issue solved!

[eyoung100]

still no joy. thinking i might be better off trying the broadcom-sta package from broadcom? gentoo-sources hasn't been updated to 2.6.35 yet ...so i might have to wait it out... or file a bugreport?

2.6.35 is ~arch so it is available if you want to ever give the native drivers a try. I'm using it for Wine. I'd lose my sanity if it weren't for Eve I never thought to try ndiswrapper