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Unable to get Broadcom 4311 working with SliTaz
  • JonCJonC December 2009
    Moving thread from mailing-list to forum, per request from Rohit.

    I've been unable to get my BCM4311 working under SliTaz cooking-20091124. I updated it with the for tazpkg install of three packages from ~jozee (linux-2.6.30.6.tazpkg, linux-wireless-2.6.30.6.tazpkg, and the broadcom-wl-.10.91.9.3_2.6.30.6.tazpkg). I did a "tazusb writefs" after that to write the updated root to the USB drive. The behavior is still the same. wl loads fine but no wireless device shows up in dmesg (other than the module load), iwconfig, or ifconfig.

    Did I get the packages from the wrong location?

    Here's the output I'm seeing from iwconfig/ifconfig/lspci/dmesg. Is here anything else that would help to diagnose?

    Thanks,

    Jon

    root@slitaz:~#
    root@slitaz:~# lspci | grep -i network
    0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
    root@slitaz:~#
    root@slitaz:~# dmesg
    [..somelinesdeleted..]
    b44 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
    ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:02:00.0
    b44.c:v2.0
    eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:15:c5:71:a9:71
    PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
    PPP Deflate Compression module registered
    PPP BSD Compression module registered
    PPP MPPE Compression module registered
    NET: Registered protocol family 24
    tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
    tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
    dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
    winbond-840.c:v1.01-e (2.4 port) Sep-11-2006 Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
    http://www.scyld.com/network/drivers.html
    [..somelinesdeleted..]
    usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
    TCP cubic registered
    NET: Registered protocol family 17
    NET: Registered protocol family 15
    RPC: Registered udp transport module.
    RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
    Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
    ata1.00: ATA-7: FUJITSU MHV2120BH, 0085002A, max UDMA/100
    ata1.00: 234441648 sectors, multi 8: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
    ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
    scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA FUJITSU MHV2120B 0085 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
    sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors: (120 GB/111 GiB)
    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:<5>sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
    ata2.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorp DVD+/-RW TS-L632D, DE03, max UDMA/33
    ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
    usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
    scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632D DE03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
    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
    sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
    usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
    usb-storage: device found at 2
    usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
    sda1
    sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
    Freeing unused kernel memory: 336k freed
    Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x180b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
    input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input2
    Linux agpgart interface v0.103
    agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 945GM Chipset
    agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 7932K stolen memory
    agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000
    Real Time Clock Driver v1.12b
    ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
    HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
    HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
    hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x001f1500
    input: HDA Intel Mic at Ext Left Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input3
    input: HDA Intel HP Out at Ext Left Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input4
    ssb: exports duplicate symbol ssb_admatch_size (owned by kernel)
    Error: Driver 'b44' is already registered, aborting...
    ohci1394 0000:02:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
    ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[19] MMIO=[ef9fd800-ef9fdfff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/4]
    sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
    sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
    sdhci-pci 0000:02:01.1: SDHCI controller found [1180:0822] (rev 19)
    sdhci-pci 0000:02:01.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
    Registered led device: mmc0::
    mmc0: SDHCI controller on PCI [0000:02:01.1] using DMA
    ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[344fc00025559961]
    scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Cruzer Micro 0.1 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
    sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 4001760 512-byte hardware sectors: (2.04 GB/1.90 GiB)
    sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
    usb-storage: device scan complete
    sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
    sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
    sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
    sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
    sdb: sdb1
    sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
    NET: Registered protocol family 10
    ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
    lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
    lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
    wl: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
    Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
    root@slitaz:~#
    root@slitaz:~# lsmod
    Module Size Used by Tainted: P
    wl 1269612 0
    lib80211 4836 1 wl
    ipv6 198472 10
    sdhci_pci 6280 0
    sdhci 13892 1 sdhci_pci
    mmc_core 37792 1 sdhci
    led_class 3436 1 sdhci
    ohci1394 24980 0
    ieee1394 65408 1 ohci1394
    snd_hda_codec_idt 49092 1
    snd_hda_intel 21200 0
    snd_hda_codec 47116 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
    snd_pcm 51780 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
    snd_timer 16344 1 snd_pcm
    snd 43584 5 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
    soundcore 5180 1 snd
    snd_page_alloc 7248 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
    battery 9952 0
    rtc 9136 0
    intel_agp 23032 1
    agpgart 25980 1 intel_agp
    root@slitaz:~#
    root@slitaz:~# iwconfig
    lo no wireless extensions.

    eth0 no wireless extensions.

    dummy0 no wireless extensions.

    root@slitaz:~#
    root@slitaz:~# ifconfig
    eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:C5:71:A9:71
    UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
    RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
    Interrupt:17

    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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
    RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

    root@slitaz:~#
  • JonCJonC December 2009
    Doh. I meant cooking-20091104, of course...
  • jozeejozee December 2009
    Sorry JonC, I used my admin rights to format your post so that everyone can read it. Hope its fine with you.


    b44 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
    ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:02:00.0 b44.c:v2.0
    eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:15:c5:71:a9:71


    Ok, your situation is bit tricky as your eth0 card is Broadcom 44xx which I think needs ssb which needs to be blacklisted for "wl" drivers. I am guessing eth0 card is creating some problem.

    Can you try "ifconfig eth0 down" and then "ifconfig wlan0 up"?

    Also, try ndiswrapper (instead of wl) and see if that works. If it doesn't, it has to be an "ssb" problem.
  • kultexkultex December 2009
    JonC - perhaps it is possible for you to download fluxflux-sl - its a full distro, but in the basics very near to slitaz - BCM4311 is there supported out of the box - so it could be very helpful to compare - for me it was very helpful with the umts stuff

    http://mirror.live-modules.org/quax/index.php?dir=snapshots%2Ffluxflux-sl%2F
  • jozeejozee December 2009
    @kultex: BCM4311 is also supported in slitaz. I have BCM4328, which also needs the BCM4311 driver to work. The overall module size is only few KB but we cannot distribute it with Slitaz because of the copyright problem (non-free license). This problem is very specific to latest Cooking release. That's why I want JonC to first get ndiswrapper working so that we can rule out "ssb" interference.

    But yes, everything working out of box is great.
  • JonCJonC December 2009
    @jozee: I not only don't mind your reformatting, I much appreciate it! it's much easier to read now...

    I really could use some help with the ndiswrapper stuff. As a total newbie, I'm not sure what I'm doing.

    Is it just copy the .sys file and .inf file from a windows install to my thumb drive, (mounted on /home), then

    cd /home; ndiswrapper –i filename.inf

    Am I missing anything?

    Thanks!
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