b43: Radio Hardware Status Disabled
With a Linksys WUSB600N and NetGear WNDA3100, which both appear to utilize a Broadcom 4311 chipset, the radio hardware status always seems to get set to disabled immediately after the wireless interface is started and are never re-enabled.
This is happening with the b43 driver (found in Linux 2.6.25.3 kernel) on Fedora 9. Below is the dmesg and lspci output.
dmesg | grep b43
b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found
b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 4, Type 2, Revision 8 b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2
input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input10
b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10) b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized
b43-phy0 debug: 32-bit DMA initialized
Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started
b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device [1028:0007]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at c0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel <?>
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb
Anything to get these cards working?
Michael
Quoted 7 lines · Michael Larabel
With a Linksys WUSB600N and NetGear WNDA3100, which both appear to utilize a Broadcom 4311 chipset, the radio hardware status always seems to get set to disabled immediately after the wireless interface is started and are never re-enabled.
This is happening with the b43 driver (found in Linux 2.6.25.3 kernel) on Fedora 9. Below is the dmesg and lspci output.
Did you open a corresponding bug at bugzilla.redhat.com? If not, please do so (and CC: [email protected] if you don't mind).
What is the latest F9 kernel you have tried? Could you try one of the latest ones from Koji?
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=50055
The wireless bits in the freshly installed F9 kernels are a bit old, so I want to make sure you are working with modern code.
Thanks!
John
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John W. Linville [email protected]