[SOLVED] Error messages with broadcom-wl

cogeary · 2014-03-06 23:34:21

Hi all.

I've installed Arch on a Macbook Pro 11,1. Its wireless card is a BCM4360, so I am using Broadcom's wl driver. As far as I can tell, it's working fine; however, upon connection (and intermittently afterwards) this error is logged to the console:

ERROR @wl_inform_single_bss : cfg80211_inform_bss_frame error

At the moment I'm using connman-git, but I get the same error using netctl or just wpa_supplicant.

Searching around a bit, I found the following:

The UbuntuForums thread is a completely different issue than this--my error just happened to show up in the log--but it shows this may be a Macbook-specific (or bcm4360) issue.
As for the rosa bug, it looks like this used to be more serious until proper error handling was implemented. (but isn't wl proprietary...? and would this get merged upstream?)

Like I said, I don't seem to have any connection problems, so this issue is mainly one of cosmetics (it can be rather disconcerting typing something at a tty to have an error message swallow up your neat one-liner ) and OCD (error? what?! why!?! MUST FIX!!!1!!11!).

Any thoughts on how to fix it, or at least suppress it? I can pull any logs you want; here's the last 20 lines from dmesg though it doesn't seem too interesting:

[    7.339351] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.17
[    7.339363] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[    7.339364] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[    7.339369] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[    7.339371] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[    7.339373] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[    7.340539] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb
[    7.357735] usb 1-3.1: USB disconnect, device number 4
[    7.565573] usb 1-3.2: USB disconnect, device number 5
[    8.904752] type=1006 audit(1394144957.962:2): pid=307 uid=0 old auid=4294967295 new auid=1000 old ses=4294967295 new ses=1 res=1
[    8.915248] type=1006 audit(1394144957.972:3): pid=445 uid=0 old auid=4294967295 new auid=1000 old ses=4294967295 new ses=2 res=1
[    5.831174] systemd-udevd[137]: renamed network interface eth0 to wlp3s0
[   15.806787] ERROR @wl_inform_single_bss : 
[   15.806814] cfg80211_inform_bss_frame error
[  321.705943] ERROR @wl_inform_single_bss : cfg80211_inform_bss_frame error
[  323.283082] type=1006 audit(1394145271.499:4): pid=708 uid=0 old auid=4294967295 new auid=1000 old ses=4294967295 new ses=3 res=1
[  335.993800] ERROR @wl_inform_single_bss : cfg80211_inform_bss_frame error
[  368.305628] ERROR @wl_inform_single_bss : cfg80211_inform_bss_frame error
[  454.656325] ERROR @wl_inform_single_bss : cfg80211_inform_bss_frame error
[  703.123515] ERROR @wl_inform_single_bss : cfg80211_inform_bss_frame error

Thanks.

Last edited by cogeary (2014-03-29 21:17:42)

WonderWoofy · 2014-03-07 00:59:29

I have no idea what those errors mean, but I too have a card that requires broadcom-wl. It throws errors on me as well, though not the same as what you are getting. My card works perfectly fine though, so I just don't pay any attention to it. I guess I have also partially assumed that since it works mostly off a closed binary blob, it isn't really debuggable anyway. But I have never actually looked into it.

Sorry I can't be of any real help.

frank604 · 2014-03-07 05:34:40

I wanted to chime in and also use broadcom-wl on my MBA. Like you and WonderWoofy, it throws an occassional error here and there but all is well. As you stated, if everything is functioning, why worry? Not like you have to stare at dmesg 24/7. Be happy and enjoy.

cogeary · 2014-03-29 21:16:56

Okay, okay fine. I give up . Thanks for the consolation.

Last edited by cogeary (2014-03-29 21:17:19)

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#1 2014-03-06 23:34:21

[SOLVED] Error messages with broadcom-wl

#2 2014-03-07 00:59:29

Re: [SOLVED] Error messages with broadcom-wl

#3 2014-03-07 05:34:40

Re: [SOLVED] Error messages with broadcom-wl

#4 2014-03-29 21:16:56

Re: [SOLVED] Error messages with broadcom-wl

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