Wireless Problem
Hi,
I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter
working. I have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to figure out what is happening. I have attached two files. One contains the output from dmesg. The other has the output from several commands as requested in the doc.
I have the latest of all of the commonly used software -
ndiswrapper, Broadcom STA, Fedora FC16 with all updates, b43-fwcutter, and a lot more that I can't remember.
The pc I am using has an ethernet connection. I am trying to get
the wireless working there. I am not able to successfully connect to my home wireless network. I can somewhat connect by manually assigning the IP address. It will connect and assign an IP address but I can't do anything. If I try ping, I get host unreachable.
My question stems from a lack of what to do. Looking at your
documentation, I see references to b43-fwcutter. Do I have to do something with that program? I have read what it does, but no where have I read anything about me having to do something to get the firmware.
Another question is which drivers should I be using - Broadcom STA,
b43, or ndiswrapper with windows drivers for xp? I have tried to get all of these working at some point. I may have tried running several at the same time as I don't know how to check what is being used. I can list what is installed.
Should I open a thread some place? If so, I was thinking the
Networking forum at Fedora. I found your site listed in one recent post there. I could add to it.
Thanks in advance for any help and advice you give.
Vince Radice
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2012/2/9 Vince Radice <[email protected]>:
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? ?I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter working. ?I have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to figure out what is happening. ?I have attached two files. ?One contains the output from dmesg. ?The other has the output from several commands as requested in the doc.
This is BCM43231, fullmac device, nothing to-be-covered by b43 driver. The driver that may support this chipset is brcmfmac, but for now only support for BCM4329, BCM4330 and BCM43236 was recently-added. I think I remember Arend saying they are not working on support for BCM43231 for now. I may be wrong however.
We could try hacking support for this chipset by just extracting firmware for BCM43231 and adding proper USB ID in brcmfmac. I don't think anyone is working on this.
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Rafa?
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2012/2/9 Vince Radice <[email protected]>:
Quoted 5 lines
I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter working. I
have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to figure out what is happening. I have attached two files. One contains the output from dmesg. The other has the output from several commands as requested in the doc.
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This is BCM43231, fullmac device, nothing to-be-covered by b43 driver. The driver that may support this chipset is brcmfmac, but for now only support for BCM4329, BCM4330 and BCM43236 was recently-added. I think I remember Arend saying they are not working on support for BCM43231 for now. I may be wrong however.
You are correct.
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We could try hacking support for this chipset by just extracting firmware for BCM43231 and adding proper USB ID in brcmfmac. I don't think anyone is working on this.
I believe the API between driver and firmware is different so expect problems doing that. I can inform just how different.
Gr. AvS
Thank you for the quick response. Some of the posts that I looked at indicated success with what was available, but they never came back with the proper list of what worked.
As for my question about b43-fwcutter, do I do something with this
or is it done behind the scenes by a driver?
Also, some have had success with the STA drivers. I believe that I
have installed them with yum. How can I tell if they are being used? Can I somehow tie those drivers with my usb adapter?
Again, thanks,
Vince Radice
Quoted 24 lines · Arend van Spriel
Quoted 11 lines · Rafa? Mi?ecki
2012/2/9 Vince Radice<[email protected]>:
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I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter working. I
have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to figure out what is happening. I have attached two files. One contains the output from dmesg. The other has the output from several commands as requested in the doc.This is BCM43231, fullmac device, nothing to-be-covered by b43 driver. The driver that may support this chipset is brcmfmac, but for now only support for BCM4329, BCM4330 and BCM43236 was recently-added. I think I remember Arend saying they are not working on support for BCM43231 for now. I may be wrong however.
You are correct.
Quoted 4 lines
We could try hacking support for this chipset by just extracting firmware for BCM43231 and adding proper USB ID in brcmfmac. I don't think anyone is working on this.
I believe the API between driver and firmware is different so expect problems doing that. I can inform just how different.
Gr. AvS
W dniu 9 lutego 2012 21:55 u?ytkownik Vince Radice <[email protected]> napisa?:
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? ?As for my question about b43-fwcutter, do I do something with this or is it done behind the scenes by a driver?
No idea what are you asking about. What do you mean by "I do something"? What are you trying to achieve?
b43 driver won't work this this card. b43-fwcutter is firmware extractor for b43 driver. It's not needed for this card.
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? ?Also, some have had success with the STA drivers. ?I believe that I have installed them with yum. ?How can I tell if they are being used? ?Can I somehow tie those drivers with my usb adapter?
I don't think STA supports fullmac devices (like your USB one). You can list loaded modules by "lsmod"
hint:
lsmod | grep wl
lsmod | grep b43
etc.
lspci also shows currently used driver when using verbose mode (lspci -v):
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100
Subsystem: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 AGN
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 48 Memory at d1500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] (...)
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
P.S.
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Please, bottom-post.
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