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From: Giuseppe Fontana <gfontana13@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:23:57 +0100
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Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM4318 AirForceOne issue - Ubuntu 9.10 on Acer Aspire
	5024wlmi
To: Greg Oliver <oliver.greg@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Shang Wu <shang@ubuntu.com>
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Hi!
ping from .1 -> .99  >>>> No ping
ping from .1 to <ip of nokia> >> I don't know how to determine Nokia
IP. I can't get it from the phone GUI. Is there a way to get it from
Windows? But I guess ping should work, cause Nokia phone can access
internet via wireless...

2010/1/19 Greg Oliver <oliver.greg@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Giuseppe Fontana <gfontana13@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, I installed b43-fwcutter to extract the adapter firmware, as
>> suggested in linux-wireless page.
>> I did other experiments and I have an update: the issue is only with
>> ad-hoc networks.
>> Moreover yesterday I successufully connected to a Windows ad-hoc
>> network using Network Manager (that is able to force BSSID address to
>> grant access to the same cell of the ad-hoc network) following these
>> steps:
>>
>> 1. I created an ad-hoc network (essid "SkyNet") under WinXPPro, to
>> share my Internet connection via wireless. To ? achieve this result I
>> manually set 192.168.0.1 IP address and 255.255.255.0 netmask. I also
>> selected connection sharing option under the adapter connected to the
>> internet.
>> ?2. Connected to the ad-hoc network using my Nokia E52 phone. The
>> phone and WinXPPro successfully created the network and negotiated IP
>> addresses via DHCP (note that after connection the phone can access
>> internet and navigate)
>> 3. At this point, I connected Ubuntu to the ad-hoc network via Network
>> Manager. dhcpclient founds an active network and connection happens :)
>> (Note that I later I discovered that I can achieve the same result
>> skipping step 2 and manually setting a 192.168.0.x address in Ubuntu
>> via Network Manager profile).
>>
>> However I still have a problem: even if the connection is established,
>> I cannot ping the 192.168.0.1 address and the Ubunbtu laptop can't use
>> the shared internet connection. Here is the syslog printed during the
>> connection (with dhcp negotiation):
>
> Can you ping from .1 -> .99 and from .1 to <ip of nokia>?
>
>>
>> 2010/1/18 Shang Wu <shang@ubuntu.com>:
>>> In 9.04, it used to be installing the package?b43-fwcutter. Is the package
>>> installed on your system? Can you also pastebin the syslog?
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Giuseppe Fontana <gfontana13@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi! I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my Acer 5024wlmi and followed Linux
>>>> wireless instructions to enable my Broadcom AirForceOne BCM4318 wifi
>>>> card. Now the wireless adapter is on (laptop front led also is on), I
>>>> can see wifi networks but connection fails (even with a simple ad-hoc
>>>> open wifi network!). I tried with Network Manager/WICD/Wifi Radar and
>>>> also using terminal lfconfig/lwconfig commands without success. It
>>>> seems that my wifi card cannot ping access points: for example see
>>>> this log from WICD connection session:
>>>>
>>>> -2010/01/16 22:51:15 :: Connecting to wireless network Winx
>>>> -2010/01/16 22:51:15 :: ping -q -w 3 -c 1 192.168.0.1
>>>> -2010/01/16 22:51:17 :: iwconfig wlan0
>>>> -2010/01/16 22:51:18 :: Connection Failed: Failed to ping the access
>>>> point!
>>>>
>>>> Here there are some useful data about my laptop/Ubuntu configuration.
>>>> Hope you can help!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Laptop model >> Acer Aspire 5024wlmi laptop
>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ lsb_release -d >> Description:??? Ubuntu 9.10
>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ uname -mr >> 2.6.31-17-generic i686
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ sudo lspci | grep 'Broadcom'
>>>> 06:05.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
>>>> 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0
>>>> wlan0???? IEEE 802.11bg? ESSID:""
>>>> ????????? Mode:Managed? Frequency:2.462 GHz? Access Point: Not-Associated
>>>> ????????? Tx-Power=20 dBm
>>>> ????????? Retry? long limit:7?? RTS thr:off?? Fragment thr:off
>>>> ????????? Encryption key:off
>>>> ????????? Power Management:off
>>>> ????????? Link Quality:0? Signal level:0? Noise level:0
>>>> ????????? Rx invalid nwid:0? Rx invalid crypt:0? Rx invalid frag:0
>>>> ????????? Tx excessive retries:0? Invalid misc:0?? Missed beacon:0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ sudo lsmod | grep "b43"
>>>> b43?????????????????? 122168? 0
>>>> mac80211????????????? 181140? 1 b43
>>>> cfg80211?????????????? 93052? 2 b43,mac80211
>>>> led_class?????????????? 4096? 3 acer_wmi,b43,sdhci
>>>> ssb??????????????????? 35364? 1 b43
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep b43
>>>> [??? 2.717660] b43-pci-bridge 0000:06:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21
>>>> (level, low) -> IRQ 21
>>>> [?? 14.884317] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
>>>> [?? 16.516094] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
>>>> [?? 16.739725] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw
>>>> [?? 16.745578] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
>>>> [?? 16.751202] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
>>>> [...]
>>>> [ 4300.736074] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26
>>>> 15:32:10)
>>>> [ 4300.776488] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
>>>> [ 4300.776531] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
>>>> [ 4300.776575] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
>>>> ? *-network:0
>>>> ?????? description: Network controller
>>>> ?????? product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
>>>> ?????? vendor: Broadcom Corporation
>>>> ?????? physical id: 5
>>>> ?????? bus info: pci@0000:06:05.0
>>>> ?????? version: 02
>>>> ?????? width: 32 bits
>>>> ?????? clock: 33MHz
>>>> ?????? capabilities: bus_master
>>>> ?????? configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64
>>>> ?????? resources: irq:21 memory:c0204000-c0205fff
>>>> ? *-network:1
>>>> ?????? description: Ethernet interface
>>>> ?????? product: RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet
>>>> ?????? vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>>>> ?????? physical id: 7
>>>> ?????? bus info: pci@0000:06:07.0
>>>> ?????? logical name: eth0
>>>> ?????? version: 10
>>>> ?????? serial: 00:0a:e4:e8:a2:87
>>>> ?????? size: 1GB/s
>>>> ?????? capacity: 1GB/s
>>>> ?????? width: 32 bits
>>>> ?????? clock: 66MHz
>>>> ?????? capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp
>>>> mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
>>>> ?????? configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169
>>>> driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.0.242 latency=64
>>>> link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=1GB/s
>>>> ?????? resources: irq:23 ioport:a000(size=256)
>>>> memory:c0209400-c02094ff memory:44000000-4401ffff(prefetchable)
>>>> ? *-network
>>>> ?????? description: Wireless interface
>>>> ?????? physical id: 1
>>>> ?????? logical name: wlan0
>>>> ?????? serial: 00:14:a4:49:c7:fc
>>>> ?????? capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
>>>> ?????? configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ sudo iwlist scan
>>>> (...)
>>>> wlan0???? Scan completed :
>>>> ????????? Cell 01 - Address: 02:1D:E0:00:08:5A
>>>> ??????????????????? Channel:11
>>>> ??????????????????? Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
>>>> ??????????????????? Quality=62/70? Signal level=-48 dBm
>>>> ??????????????????? Encryption key:off
>>>> ??????????????????? ESSID:"Winx"
>>>> ??????????????????? Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
>>>> ??????????????????? Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
>>>> ????????????????????????????? 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
>>>> ??????????????????? Mode:Ad-Hoc
>>>> ??????????????????? Extra:tsf=00000001035383eb
>>>> ??????????????????? Extra: Last beacon: 272ms ago
>>>> ??????????????????? IE: Unknown: 000457696E78
>>>> ??????????????????? IE: Unknown: 010482840B16
>>>> ??????????????????? IE: Unknown: 03010B
>>>> ??????????????????? IE: Unknown: 06020000
>>>> ??????????????????? IE: Unknown: 2A0100
>>>> ??????????????????? IE: Unknown: 32080C1218243048606C
>>>> ??????????????????? IE: Unknown: DD070giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ sudo
>>>> iwlist scan050F202000100
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> giuseppe@giuseppe-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
>>>> ?* Reconfiguring network interfaces...
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