Steve Scrimpshire Posted October 13, 2006 Report Share Posted October 13, 2006 (edited) I have a Motorola WN825G pcmcia card and had no problems with it under Mandriva, but I installed Ubuntu recently and now the interface doesn't get an ip at boot. If I click the wireless applet in Gnome, it says that eth1 is active, but it has no ip and iwconfig shows the AP as Invalid. If I then click Configure, highlight eth1, select properties and then uncheck 'enable this device', click 'ok', highlight eth1, select properties, check 'enable this device', it takes a second or two and gets associated with the AP with an IP. Trying one step less and 'Deactivate', then 'Activate' doesn't work...it takes about a minute to try to associate, the link light on the card never lights or flashes and it eventually just closes the 'Activating...' window and doesn't get an IP. root@omar-laptop:/home/ohms# uname -a Linux omar-laptop 2.6.15-27-386 #1 PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 01:51:59 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux root@omar-laptop:/home/ohms# cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp wireless-essid <<my essid>> wireless-key <<my key>> Any ideas? Edited October 13, 2006 by Steve Scrimpshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted October 16, 2006 Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 (edited) I don't have what-so-ever any experience with pcmcia cards but you might check this and see if it helps: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=247170 Edited October 16, 2006 by Artificial Intelligence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nchancock Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 Two questions, is the bcm43xx modules loaded (lsmod | grep bcm43xx)? And ... did the card work correctly with ndiswrapper? I had a similar problem with the bcm43xx driver in the new ubuntu. I have a Broadcom chipset for my laptop's wireless and I had a devil of a time getting it to work with the bcm43xx driver. I had to install fw-cutter and cut the firmware from the windows drivers, which I screwed up, and then resorted to installing a package with all the known firmwares in it. Once I did get the thing working, it was only able to connect at 11 Mbps ... v e r y s l o w. So I decided to dump the bcm43xx and stick with the ndiswrapper. If you decide to do that, here's how. 1) unload the bcm43xx module; sudo rmmod bcm43xx 2) add it to modprobe.d's blacklist to ensure that it is never loaded again, even by accident. sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist add a line at the bottom that reads "blacklist bcm43xx" 3) install the ndiswrapper-utils package sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils 4) change the ID for your wireless nic to wlan0 instead of the default eth1 sudo gedit /etc/iftab change "eth1" to "wlan0" and then run sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart 5) after that it's a pretty much standard ndiswrapper setup, which you can find countless tutorials here and on other sites. I found that ndiswrapper worked MUCH better for my card, and until they work some more of the kinks out of the bcm43xx driver, I am gonna stick with it. Good Luck! Nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted October 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 I may wind up going back to ndiswrapper. This card was working great with Mandriva and the bcm43xx module, though. Here's more info: tail -v -f /var/log/messages: Click on “Configure” and highlight eth1, Select “Properties” and uncheck “Enable” and click “Ok”: The bar in systray that was two orange bars is now fully green, but there is no IP: Oct 19 22:12:47 localhost kernel: [17179787.872000] SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:13:10:2d:8b:68 Oct 19 22:14:09 localhost kernel: [17179870.000000] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out Oct 19 22:14:09 localhost kernel: [17179870.000000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:06:00.0 disabled Select Properties and recheck “Enable” and Click “Ok”: Bar goes back to two orange bars for a few seconds and then becomes all green again and now there is an IP: Oct 19 22:14:09 localhost kernel: [17179870.000000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 Oct 19 22:14:09 localhost kernel: [17179870.288000] bcm43xx: Controller restarted Oct 19 22:14:10 localhost kernel: [17179870.372000] SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:13:10:2d:8b:68 /var/log/messages on boot: Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179601.936000] Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:10.0 [12a3:ab01] Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179601.936000] Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179601.936000] Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179601.936000] Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179601.936000] Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:10.0, mfunc 0x01000002, devctl 0x60 Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179602.168000] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0000, PCI irq 11 Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179602.168000] Socket status: 30000010 Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179602.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179602.168000] Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:11.0 [1179:0001] Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179602.296000] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0438, PCI irq 11 Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179602.296000] Socket status: 30000020 Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179602.804000] pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0 Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179602.944000] pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 1 Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.036000] ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7 Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.036000] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com> Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.080000] bcm43xx driver Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.080000] PCI: Enabling device 0000:06:00.0 (0000 -> 0002) Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.080000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.188000] cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x1e0-0x1e7 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x388-0x38f Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.192000] cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x408-0x40f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7 Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.192000] cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean. Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.192000] cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean. Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.196000] cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean. Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.196000] cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x1e0-0x1e7 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x388-0x38f Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.200000] cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x408-0x40f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7 Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.200000] cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean. Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.200000] cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean. Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.200000] cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean. Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.200000] cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.212000] pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 Oct 19 22:09:53 localhost kernel: [17179603.524000] hostap_cs: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>) Socket 0 is builtin WLAN, which I don't use because it is only 11M Socket 1 is addon card (Motorola WN825G): root@omar-laptop:/home/ohms# cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: "TOSHIBA", "Wireless LAN Card", "Version 01.01", "" manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002 function: 6 (network) Socket 1: product info: "Broadcom", "802.11b CardBus", "8.0" manfid: 0x02d0, 0x0406 function: 6 (network) root@omar-laptop:/home/ohms# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 289182 XT-PIC timer 1: 2234 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 7: 4 XT-PIC parport0 8: 3 XT-PIC rtc 9: 75 XT-PIC acpi 11: 62046 XT-PIC ohci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb2, ehci_hcd:usb3, ALI 5451, yenta, yenta, pcmcia0.0, bcm43xx 12: 107 XT-PIC i8042 14: 23404 XT-PIC ide0 15: 18848 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 Why can I not see 3-6 or 13? Even after card is successfully started. From the looks of the messages when it starts it is trying to use IRQ 6, but that becomes disabled and it switches to IRQ 11. Am I reading that right? root@omar-laptop:/proc/irq/11/pcmcia0.0# cat /proc/ioports | grep pcm && cat /proc/ioports | grep PCI 0100-013f : pcmcia_socket0 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 1000-10ff : PCI CardBus #02 1400-14ff : PCI CardBus #02 1800-18ff : PCI CardBus #06 1c00-1cff : PCI CardBus #06 root@omar-laptop:/proc/irq/11/pcmcia0.0# cat /proc/iomem | grep pcm && cat /proc/ioports | grep PC a0000000-a0000fff : pcmcia_socket0 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 1000-10ff : PCI CardBus #02 1400-14ff : PCI CardBus #02 1800-18ff : PCI CardBus #06 1c00-1cff : PCI CardBus #06 I've tried an append in grub.conf of pci=routeirq but that did no good. I've got PnP OS “No” set in the BIOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agendelman Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Steve, A lot of people are having trouble with bcm43xx on Mandriva. I'm runninf 2007 official and I finally gave up and went back to ndiswrapper, which is working beautifully, and without the speed limitation. An lsmod revealed several additional files associatd with fwcutter and bcm43xx which I had to stop from loading in order to make ndiswrapper boot. I added the following to /etc/modprobe.conf: blacklist bcm43xx blacklist ieee80211 blacklist ieee80211softmac blacklist ieee80211_crypt Then, for good measure, I added "ndiswrapper" (without the quotes) to /etc/modprobe.preload and /etc/modules. I configured my linksys wireless card. which has the broadcom chip, on eth1, managed mode, open wep, and it's running at 54 Mbit Hope this points you in theright direction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted October 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 (edited) Still have the exact same problem with ndiswrapper. Edit: Ok, not the exact same problem. On boot, it sits at 'Configuring network interface' for over a minute and then finishes booting, whereupon I have to do the same trick as with bcm43xx to get an ip. I guess I am stuck with the pain. Edit Part II - The Two Towers: With bcm43xx, I've narrowed it down to exactly what I have to do manually. I look at iwconfig and it shows the correct essid and enc key, but the AP shows as "Invalid". I have to do: iwconfig eth1 key <<my key>> iwconfig eth1 essid <<my essid>> Whereupon it now sees the AP, but I still have to do: ifdown eth1 ifup eth1 To get an IP. I've tried to add those steps to /etc/rc.local...no luck Tried creating a cronjob to run as root on boot...no luck Tried creating a new service to run at S99 for all runlevels...no luck. Tried creating a script to run suid root in my Gnome session...no luck...still gives me "Permission denied" for each command. I'm at a loss. Edit Part III - The Return of the King: I have to perform this same trick even after the laptop comes out of suspend. Edited October 30, 2006 by Steve Scrimpshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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