Can't get my wireless working (broadcom 4318 under Acer Aspire 5020)

iznogoud · 2008-03-27 12:59:01

Hello all
My last problem on Archlinux is my wireless connection ....
I have an Acer Aspire 5020 and a broadcom 4318 wireless card. I followed the tutorial in the wiki for the installation of "bcm43xx-fwcutter" but my wifi doesn't work .
Here are some informations :

iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:""  Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Invalid   
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality=0/100  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

eth1      no wireless extensions.

 iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      No scan results

eth1      Interface doesn't support scanning.

ifconfig
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0A:E4:E6:E9:0D  
          inet addr:192.168.2.121  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e4ff:fee6:e90d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1101 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:950628 (928.3 Kb)  TX bytes:219918 (214.7 Kb)
          Interrupt:19 Base address:0xa400 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:3673 (3.5 Kb)  TX bytes:3673 (3.5 Kb)

dmesg |grep bcm43xx
bcm43xx driver
bcm43xx: Firmware: no support for microcode extracted from version 4.x binary drivers.

And I haven't any interface for my wireless card in my rc.conf.
Thanks for your help.
Iznogoud.

Last edited by iznogoud (2008-03-27 12:59:37)

Stoffi · 2008-03-27 14:51:55

maybe you can try b43 instead of bcm43xx?
it should support version 4.x of the binary drivers too.
don't forget to follow the wiki

iznogoud · 2008-03-28 10:17:46

I tried with the b43-fwcutter but it doesn't work with me (I'm not a superman in linux ). So I re-tried with the bcm43xx-fwcutter and now I've this when I type "dmesg |grep bcm"

[francois@fepc ~]$ dmesg |grep bcm
bcm43xx driver
bcm43xx: Radio disabled by hardware

I understand that my wifi is disabled by hardware but how can I turn it on ? I tried to push my wireless led but nothing happened.

Now when I type iwconfig I get :

eth0      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.472 GHz  Access Point: Invalid   
          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=19 dBm   
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality=0/100  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

My wireless interface is recognized as eth0
Can someone help me ?
Thanks

Stoffi · 2008-03-28 10:19:38

check your bios, maybe it shuts down your wirless interface when you connect a cable, I've experienced that once.

iznogoud · 2008-03-28 13:12:08

Ok, thanks for your help.
That wasn't the bios(I removed acer-acpi for acerhk and my wireless led worked)but I've already some bad news.
my wireless card is now ok, I can see the wifi network:

eth0      Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:C0:49:54:33:D4
                    ESSID:"USR5462"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Quality=67/100  Signal level=-73 dBm  Noise level=-72 dBm
                    Extra: Last beacon: 13ms ago

But now, I can't connect to my wireless network o_0. I entered my wep key and no connection i possible I can't get my IP address.
I tried with networkmanager and wicd.

Stoffi · 2008-03-28 13:28:43

try from a terminal.
"iwconfig eth0 mode managed essid USR5462 key <wep key here>"
you might have to wait a couple of seconds before the connection works.
if it still doesn't work, are you sure that the network supports dhcp?
that reminds me, if you aren't using netcfg2, you should configure your
interface in rc.conf too.

iznogoud · 2008-03-28 14:29:06

I'm sure that my network supports dhcp.
But I'va found this on my dmesg :

ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

I put all my dmesg...like that I'm sure

Linux version 2.6.24-ARCH (root@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.2.3) #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 5 12:07:52 UTC 2008
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009b800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009b800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000d0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fea0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fea0000 - 000000001feae000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001feae000 - 000000001ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001ff00000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
510MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f6de0
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 130720) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA             0 ->     4096
  Normal       4096 ->   130720
  HighMem    130720 ->   130720
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0:        0 ->   130720
On node 0 totalpages: 130720
  DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
  DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
  DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
  Normal zone: 989 pages used for memmap
  Normal zone: 125635 pages, LIFO batch:31
  HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
  Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP 000F6DA0, 0014 (r0 PTLTD )
ACPI: RSDT 1FEA81C2, 0034 (r1 PTLTD    RSDT    6040000  LTP        0)
ACPI: FACP 1FEADE20, 0074 (r1 ATI    Piranha   6040000 ATI     F4240)
ACPI: DSDT 1FEA81F6, 5C2A (r1    ATI    SB400  6040000 MSFT  100000E)
ACPI: FACS 1FEAEFC0, 0040
ACPI: SSDT 1FEADE94, 00D6 (r1 PTLTD  POWERNOW  6040000  LTP        1)
ACPI: APIC 1FEADF6A, 005A (r1 PTLTD       APIC    6040000  LTP        0)
ACPI: MCFG 1FEADFC4, 003C (r1 PTLTD    MCFG    6040000  LTP        0)
ACPI: DMI detected: Acer
ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254.
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high edge)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 21 low level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:dec00000)
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009b000 - 000000000009c000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009c000 - 00000000000a0000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000d0000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000d0000 - 0000000000100000
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 129699
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda2 ro
mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Detected 1800.054 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 506636k/522880k available (2498k kernel code, 15624k reserved, 852k data, 296k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
    fixmap  : 0xfff80000 - 0xfffff000   ( 508 kB)
    pkmap   : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000   (4096 kB)
    vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xff7fe000   ( 495 MB)
    lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xdfea0000   ( 510 MB)
      .init : 0xc044b000 - 0xc0495000   ( 296 kB)
      .data : 0xc03709df - 0xc0445cdc   ( 852 kB)
      .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc03709df   (2498 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3604.82 BogoMIPS (lpj=6004525)
Security Framework initialized
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000001 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000410 00000001 00000000 00000001 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
Early unpacking initramfs... done
ACPI: Core revision 20070126
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
CPU0: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-34 stepping 02
Total of 1 processors activated (3604.82 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...  failed.
...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... works.
Brought up 1 CPUs
net_namespace: 64 bytes
Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at e0000000 is not E820-reserved
PCI: Not using MMCONFIG.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd63c, last bus=6
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: EC: non-query interrupt received, switching to interrupt mode
ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x3, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62
ACPI: EC: driver started in interrupt mode
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PB6_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PB7_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.EXP1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:06.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:06.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:07.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:07.0
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default
ACPI: RTC can wake from S4
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
system 00:01: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff has been reserved
system 00:01: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff could not be reserved
system 00:01: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff could not be reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0x1080-0x1080 has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0x1200-0x120f has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0x500-0x51f has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0x4d6-0x4d6 has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0xc00-0xc01 has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0xc14-0xc14 has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0xc50-0xc52 has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0xc6c-0xc6c has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0xc6f-0xc6f has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0xcd4-0xcd5 has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0xcd6-0xcd7 has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0xcd8-0xcdf has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0x8000-0x805f has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0xf40-0xf47 has been reserved
system 00:08: ioport range 0x87f-0x87f has been reserved
system 00:09: iomem range 0xe0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
system 00:09: iomem range 0xfff80000-0xffffffff could not be reserved
system 00:09: iomem range 0x0-0xfff could not be reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0
  IO window: 9000-9fff
  MEM window: c0100000-c01fffff
  PREFETCH window: c8000000-cfffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:06.0
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: disabled.
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:07.0
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: disabled.
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bus 7, cardbus bridge: 0000:06:06.0
  IO window: 0000a400-0000a4ff
  IO window: 0000a800-0000a8ff
  PREFETCH window: 30000000-33ffffff
  MEM window: 34000000-37ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4
  IO window: a000-afff
  MEM window: c0200000-c02fffff
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:06.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 196608 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
Freeing initrd memory: 6496k freed
apm: BIOS not found.
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:02.0:pcie00]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:06.0:pcie00]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:07.0:pcie00]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.6[b] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:14.6 disabled
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: module loaded
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Freeing unused kernel memory: 296k freed
libata version 3.00 loaded.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:14.1 to 64
scsi0 : pata_atiixp
scsi1 : pata_atiixp
ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x8410 irq 14
ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x8418 irq 15
ata1.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG MP0804H, YS200-05, max UDMA/100
ata1.00: 156368016 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata2.00: ATAPI: Slimtype DVDRW SOSW-833S, VRS1, max UDMA/33
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      SAMSUNG MP0804H  YS20 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            Slimtype DVDRW SOSW-833S  VRS1 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
bcm43xx driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:05.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 156368016 512-byte hardware sectors (80060 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 156368016 512-byte hardware sectors (80060 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:07.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
eth1: RTL8169sb/8110sb at 0xe081a400, 00:0a:e4:e6:e9:0d, XID 10000000 IRQ 19
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
rtc_cmos 00:04: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
rtc0: alarms up to one month
input: Acer hotkey driver as /devices/virtual/input/input2
Acer Travelmate hotkey driver v0.5.35
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
Marking TSC unstable due to: TSC halts in idle.
Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-34 processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x4
powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x6
powernow-k8:    2 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x16
ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (off-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/virtual/input/input3
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
input: Lid Switch as /devices/virtual/input/input4
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
input: Sleep Button (CM) as /devices/virtual/input/input5
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZS0] (68 C)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZS1] (53 C)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZSV] (60 C)
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
Linux agpgart interface v0.102
ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:10/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input6
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 20, io mem 0xc0000000
ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:19/LNXVIDEO:01/input/input7
ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 20, io mem 0xc0001000
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input8
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 20, io mem 0xc0002000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:06:06.0 [1025:0080]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:06:06.0, mfunc 0x010a1b22, devctl 0x64
piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: Found 0000:00:14.0 device
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x12a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x204000
usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -62
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input9
NET: Registered protocol family 23
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0ef8, PCI irq 16
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta: Raising subordinate bus# of parent bus (#06) from #06 to #08
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0xa000 - 0xafff
cs: IO port probe 0xa000-0xafff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xc0200000 - 0xc02fffff
nsc-ircc, chip->init
nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e
nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli)
nsc_ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x2f8
nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e
nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli)
nsc_ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x2f8
nsc-ircc 00:0a: disabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:06.2[C] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[22]  MMIO=[c0208000-c02087ff]  Max Packet=[2048]  IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
sdhci: SDHCI controller found at 0000:06:06.4 [104c:8034] (rev 0)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:06.4[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
sdhci:slot0: Will use DMA mode even though HW doesn't fully claim to support it.
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
mmc0: SDHCI at 0xc0209000 irq 16 DMA
sdhci:slot1: Will use DMA mode even though HW doesn't fully claim to support it.
mmc1: SDHCI at 0xc0208c00 irq 16 DMA
sdhci:slot2: Will use DMA mode even though HW doesn't fully claim to support it.
mmc2: SDHCI at 0xc0208800 irq 16 DMA
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:06.3[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.6[b] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
MC'97 1 converters and GPIO not ready (0xff00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5[b] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
input: Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input10
input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:13.0-1
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[1234567812345678]
EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
Adding 979956k swap on /dev/sda3.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:979956k
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.28.0 20060524 on minor 0
bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
[drm] Loading R300 Microcode
[drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -212594320 ns)
r8169: eth1: link up
eth1: no IPv6 routers present

I'll try with netcfg

Stoffi · 2008-03-28 14:40:31

well, I'm a linux newb, so I don't even know what a dmesg is
did you try the command I gave you?
don't forget to do the required changes in rc.conf when you are trying out netcfg2

iznogoud · 2008-03-28 14:47:42

Yes I did the command but nothing happened
This wifi connection is driving me crazy

Stoffi · 2008-03-28 14:55:30

at least try netcfg2.
I might have read that ifconfig and iwconfig commands needs to be run as root somwhere,
maybe you can try that if you haven't already, until the new iso comes out, I run arch as root, so I don't know
if the command doesn't work if your'e not a super user.

iznogoud · 2008-03-28 15:08:43

Tried netcfg and it doesn't work
That's so strange....I make a little break before re-testing all solutions.
Thanks for your help guy

iznogoud · 2008-03-28 16:40:54

I have a new error, when I try to connect to my wireless network my dmesg say :

bcm43xx: IRQ_READY timeout

Stoffi · 2008-03-28 16:55:37

hmm, are you using b43 or bcm43xx drivers?
if you are using b43, try blacklisting bcm43xx in rc.conf

iznogoud · 2008-03-28 17:11:56

No, I'm using the bcm43xx driver. I'll try with the b43....hopefully it'll works.
But what are the differences between bcm43xx and b43 ?

Stoffi · 2008-03-28 17:17:55

bcm43xx is the old driver, and isn't supported or developed anymore, I think it is better explained at the b43 webpages.

mrabbit · 2008-04-03 09:01:18

You need to use ndiswrapper. The files you will need to load with it are bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys iirc. You also need to blacklist the bcm43xx module.

You should be able to find them here:
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/noteboo … 80211g.zip

You then need to do:

ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -m
rmmod bcm43xx
modprobe ndiswrapper

Last edited by mrabbit (2008-04-03 09:04:32)

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