Hello everybody,
I have bought asus wl-148g v2 PCI wireless card to my router (an old PC). I'm running fedora core 5 with kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.
The chard has the following chipset: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
First I tried to install my card with NDISwrapper - it worked, but:
- I wasn't able to use the card as "master" (iwconfig eth2 mode
master")
- The card supports modes 802.11b/g, but ran in b only
- The card has probably some kind of power managment, so it
"turned off" after few hours automaticly and I had to do
service network restart before usage. This feature
couldn't be turned off with iwconfig (it looked OK, but the
card turned off anymore)
- The card supports 128-bit encryption, but I was albe to use
64-bit only.
That's why I decided to obtain navite linux driver - bcm43xx and fwcutter.
Note taht I reinstalled the router before installing new driver.
Then I did yum update and updated all the system. Then I Installed fwcutter and extracted firmware from the original driver which I got from the manufacter (bcmwl5.sys). During extracting of the firmware a saw en error (some part couldn't be extracted, but I can't remember all the message), bud when I was searching on the interenet for a while, I found out that this error is quite common and driver works with it.
Now my card is installed, bud I can't see it from other wifi device.
Here are logs...
[root@delfin honza]# dmesg -c
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 0/64
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0260 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0220 (TX) max used slots: 2/512
bcm43xx: DMA 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0f.0
eth0: setting half-duplex.
bcm43xx: set security called
bcm43xx: .level = 0
bcm43xx: .enabled = 0
bcm43xx: .encrypt = 0
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up?
bcm43xx: Radio turned on
bcm43xx: Chip initialized
bcm43xx: DMA initialized
bcm43xx: 80211 cores initialized
bcm43xx: Keys cleared
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1# Wifina
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
SoftMAC: Unable to find matching network after scan!
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first.
SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1
SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels
SoftMAC: Scanning finished
SoftMAC: Unable to find matching network after scan!
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[root@delfin honza]# /sbin/iwconfig
(...)
Warning: Driver for device eth2 has been compiled with version 20
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19.
Some things may be broken...
eth2 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"delfin.net" Nickname:"delfin.vojtechovi"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.484 GHz Access Point: Invalid
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
RTS thr
ff Fragment thr
ff
Encryption key
ff
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
[root@delfin honza]# /sbin/ifconfig
(...)# Wifina
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWadr 00:17:31:94:64:98
inet adr:192.168.20.1 Všesměr:192.168.20.255 Maska:255.255.255.0
AKTIVOVÁNO VŠESMĚROVÉ_VYSÍLÁNÍ MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metrika:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
kolizí:0 délka odchozí fronty:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:13160 (12.8 KiB)
Přerušení:5
(...)
[root@delfin network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth2
DEVICE=eth2
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.20.1
BROADCAST=192.168.20.255
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.20.0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=wlan
ESSID="delfin.net"
CHANNEL="11"
Excause me, some messages are in czech...
Note that iwconfig says Access Point: Invalid - what dows it exactly mean?
I am going to make a wlan router, so I would like to use Mode master - is it possible? (If not, I would use mode Ad-hoc, like when I was running ndiswrapper)
Unforunatly I can test the card by scanning other networks becouse I live in a village and I can't see any other wlan network.
What I should do in oirder to make the card working? Can you post me any config files?
Thank you in advance
