bcm4311

[steveo314]

after a reboot the card can't find any wireless networks but after shutdown and power back on the card can find them. any ideas??

[deltaflyer44]

have you tried

rcnetwork restart

saves rebooting

Andy

[steveo314]

its like sometimes its not loading the ssb which the b43 firmware needs.

[lwfinger]

steveo314 wrote:
> its like sometimes its not loading the ssb which the b43 firmware needs.

This is utter nonsense! The module ssb contains a mini-driver named
b43-pci-bridge. It contains the code that the kernel uses to load a
driver, which automatically means that ssb is loaded. Then the bridge
uses the 802.11 core revision to determine if this device needs b43 or
b43legacy. These latter drivers load the firmware.

Please post the output of the command

dmesg | egrep "ssb|b43|wlan0"

when it is in the "unable to connect" state.

[steveo314]

unable to connect:

b43-pci-bridge 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
b43-pci-bridge 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:01:00.0
b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found
input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input9
firmware: requesting b43/ucode13.fw
firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals13.fw
b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED

[lwfinger]

steveo314 wrote:
> unable to connect:
> b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED

Your radio enable switch is off! If the radio is turned off, how can
it connect?

[steveo314]

i did a reinstall of the firmware and i dont get the error about the radio being disabled now. i got the radio disabled message when it would connect before the reinstall.

[pdc_2]

so where are you at now steveo?

[steveo314]

it had to do something with the first time i installed the firmware. it works every time since i did the reinstall. the b43 chipset has given everyone problems since us linux users started running it under our favorite linux flavor.