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CPU Gastronomy

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From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2010-12-29

Posts: 69

[SOLVED] Weird connection problem with broadcom chipset

Hi everyone,

After days of searching, guesses and tries, I think some helping would be ...well, helpful...

My (crappy) HP Mini 1000 has some strange problem with the wifi :
First time, I installed Wicd.  No problem, I always can connect to my home wireless router, but, when I had to get out of my cave (school started), I saw that I couldn't connect to ANY protected wireless network except mine (Always say bad password even with the good one).  I've got the good keys, etc.  Nothing.  I've installed my second router to test personnally, samething with WEP, WPA Personnal, WPA2 personnal.  I could only connect to the first router.

THe config of the router :
WPA2 Personnal
b/g
SSID broadcasted

After, I tested netcfg (after uninstalled wicd and done the corrections in my configuration files) : samething.

I use the b43 driver that is loaded at boot with rc.conf.

By the way, no problem with wired connections.

Here's the significant part of my log files after attempts with netcfg (searches done with 'tail -f /var/log/*.log' ) :

==> /var/log/errors.log <==
Jan 25 20:56:55 localhost dhcpcd[2385]: dhcpcd not running
Jan 25 20:56:59 localhost dhcpcd[2393]: dhcpcd not running
Jan 25 20:56:59 localhost dhcpcd[2401]: dhcpcd not running
Jan 25 21:04:17 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 25 21:04:17 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 25 21:04:17 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 25 21:28:22 localhost kernel: b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000800, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000
Jan 25 21:28:22 localhost kernel: b43-phy0 ERROR: This device does not support DMA on your system. It will now be switched to PIO.
Jan 25 22:13:13 localhost sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed
Jan 25 23:07:28 localhost dhcpcd[4038]: open `/var/run/dhcpcd.pid': Permission denied


==> /var/log/kernel.log <==
Jan 25 23:01:45 localhost kernel: cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
Jan 25 23:07:39 localhost kernel: sky2 0000:02:00.0: eth0: enabling interface
Jan 25 23:07:41 localhost kernel: sky2 0000:02:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both
Jan 25 23:07:59 localhost kernel: wlan0: authenticate with 00:25:9c:09:63:8d (try 1)
Jan 25 23:07:59 localhost kernel: wlan0: authenticated
Jan 25 23:07:59 localhost kernel: wlan0: associate with 00:25:9c:09:63:8d (try 1)
Jan 25 23:07:59 localhost kernel: wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:25:9c:09:63:8d (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
Jan 25 23:07:59 localhost kernel: wlan0: associated
Jan 25 23:08:09 localhost kernel: wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:25:9c:09:63:8d by local choice (reason=3)
Jan 25 23:08:09 localhost kernel: cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain

If something else is needed,  I would supply the info.

Last edited by CPU Gastronomy (2011-02-03 01:30:45)

CPU Gastronomy

Member

From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2010-12-29

Posts: 69

Re: [SOLVED] Weird connection problem with broadcom chipset

I finally found something. 

I switched to Broadcom-wl (I hate to switch to closed source...).  It was not working, but after a complete shutdown (not a reboot), it is finally working !!

This thread has helped me : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82613&p=1
I wonder how I didn't stumble on it before.