Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f45.google.com ([209.85.215.45]:64157 "EHLO mail-ew0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752964Ab0LGXLr (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:11:47 -0500 Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so495400ewy.4 for ; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:11:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4CFEBF3C.7030205@lwfinger.net> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:11:56 -0600 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= CC: =?UTF-8?B?R8OhYm9yIFN0ZWZhbmlr?= , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" , b43-dev@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Make N-PHY support experimental References: <1291755360-21570-1-git-send-email-zajec5@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/07/2010 04:57 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote: > 2010/12/7 Rafał Miłecki : >> Finally, thanks for Larry and Francesco I got b43 working with BCM4328 chipset! > > Do you mean BCM4321 (14e4:4328)? BCM4328 is AFAIK handled by brcmfmac. > >> >> It's not perfectly stable yet, but scanning and associating to open network >> works! It has to be tested, improved, there are some PHY errors from time to >> time, but generally it works :) With my device: 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4328] (rev 03) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [103c:1366] Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge Excerpt of log: [ 1184.780924] b43-pci-bridge 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LK4E] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 [ 1184.780945] b43-pci-bridge 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 1184.800166] ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x13, vendor 0x4243) [ 1184.800176] ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x0C, vendor 0x4243) [ 1184.800184] ssb: Core 2 found: PCI-E (cc 0x820, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243) [ 1184.800192] ssb: Core 3 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x0D, vendor 0x4243) [ 1184.800200] ssb: Core 4 found: USB 1.1 Host (cc 0x817, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243) [ 1184.820062] ssb: Switching to ChipCommon core, index 0 [ 1184.820202] ssb: chipcommon status is 0x0 [ 1184.820211] ssb: SPROM offset is 0x1000 [ 1184.828653] ssb: SPROM revision 5 detected. [ 1184.848037] ssb: Switching to PCI-E core, index 2 [ 1184.848659] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:04:00.0 [ 1184.897825] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4321 WLAN found (core revision 12) [ 1184.916062] ssb: Switching to IEEE 802.11 core, index 1 [ 1184.940038] b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 5, Type 4, Revision 2 [ 1184.940064] b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2055, Revision 4 [ 1184.975224] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx [ 1184.978455] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx [ 1184.980387] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio [ 1185.256050] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 508.1107 (2009-06-26 19:16:02) [ 1185.256059] ssb: Switching to ChipCommon core, index 0 [ 1185.256123] ssb: Switching to IEEE 802.11 core, index 1 [ 1185.332045] b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized [ 1185.333522] b43-phy0 debug: 64-bit DMA initialized [ 1185.333570] b43-phy0 debug: QoS enabled [ 1185.353497] b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started [ 1185.353512] b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2 [ 1188.041790] b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 0, mac: c0:3f:0e:be:2b:45 [ 1191.134922] b43-phy0 debug: Disabling hardware based encryption for keyidx: 0, mac: c0:3f:0e:be:2b:45 [ 1192.823490] b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 0, mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 1192.824306] b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 1, mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 1192.824630] b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 2, mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 1192.824989] b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 3, mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 1194.896063] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error It connects and authenticates with WEP, but not with WPA2. It appears to be limited to CCK rates. Setting a rate above 11Mb/s results in complete failure. Transmit rate is 4.6 Mb/s at 11M. All in all, not bad for first life. Larry