2015-03-17 21:01:39

by Jürgen Bausa

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Subject: Re: Broadcom 43340

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2015-03-17 22:20:35

by Arend van Spriel

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Subject: Re: Broadcom 43340

On 03/17/15 22:01, Jürgen Bausa wrote:
> Arend van Spriel<arend@...> writes:
>
>>
>> On 03/15/15 21:38, Jürgen Bausa wrote:
>>>
>>> would be nice, if you could make it clear.
>>>
>>
>> Maybe you need to mount it. This is what I found [1]:
>>
>> $ sudo mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
>>
>
> Thanks, that worked. Now I have firmware and nvram-file and the driver seems
> to load ok. At least I have an interface wlan0.
>
> However, I am not able to connect.Network-manager just says "interface is
> being set up ..." forever. I have no idea howto debug this. In the other
> post you said that the nl80211 driver should be used instead of wext. I
> found that nl80211 is the default for network-manager. So, whats going wrong
> here?

Could you provide output of these:

$ iw dev
$ iw list
$ ifconfig -a

Regards,
Arend

2015-03-17 23:20:26

by Dan Williams

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Subject: Re: Broadcom 43340

On Tue, 2015-03-17 at 21:01 +0000, Jürgen Bausa wrote:
> Arend van Spriel <arend@...> writes:
>
> >
> > On 03/15/15 21:38, Jürgen Bausa wrote:
> > >
> > > would be nice, if you could make it clear.
> > >
> >
> > Maybe you need to mount it. This is what I found [1]:
> >
> > $ sudo mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
> >
>
> Thanks, that worked. Now I have firmware and nvram-file and the driver seems
> to load ok. At least I have an interface wlan0.
>
> However, I am not able to connect.Network-manager just says "interface is
> being set up ..." forever. I have no idea howto debug this. In the other
> post you said that the nl80211 driver should be used instead of wext. I
> found that nl80211 is the default for network-manager. So, whats going wrong
> here?

Could you provide more NetworkManager logs? They should look like this;
where do your logs stop?

NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): Activation: starting connection 'my wifi'
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): Activation: Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): Activation: Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none') [30 40 0]
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): Activation: Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): Activation: Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): Activation: Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none') [40 50 0]
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): Activation: (wifi) connection 'my wifi' has security, and secrets exist. No new secrets needed.
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> Config: added 'ssid' value 'my wifi'
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1'
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'WPA-PSK'
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> Config: added 'psk' value '<omitted>'
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> Config: added 'proto' value 'WPA RSN'
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): Activation: Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> Config: set interface ap_scan to 1
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: inactive -> scanning
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> associating
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: associating -> associated
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: associated -> 4-way handshake
NetworkManager[1949]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: 4-way handshake -> completed

Dan