help debug bwn(4) wireless

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Fri May 4 20:03:15 UTC 2012


I've US Robotics 5411 wireless pccard device.
It's identified as:

# pciconf -lv
*skip*
siba_bwn0 at pci0:3:0:0:   class=0x028000 card=0x431814e4 chip=0x431814e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device     = 'BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller'
    class      = network

and from dmesg:

siba_bwn0: <Broadcom BCM4318 802.11b/g Wireless> mem 0xcc502000-0xcc503fff irq 20 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
bwn0 on siba_bwn0
bwn0: WLAN (chipid 0x4318 rev 9) PHY (analog 3 type 2 rev 7) RADIO (manuf 0x17f ver 0x2050 rev 8)
bwn0: DMA (32 bits)

I've build a kernel with bwn(4),
loaded the firmware module:

# kldstat
Id Refs Address            Size     Name
 1    4 0xffffffff80200000 104fb98  kernel
 2    1 0xffffffff81412000 28aa1    bwn_v4_ucode.ko
#

I created wlan device:

bwn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 00:c0:49:58:00:fe
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
        status: associated
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:c0:49:58:00:fe
        inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g
        status: associated
        ssid lagartixa channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g) bssid 00:18:39:e6:46:b6
        country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
        AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 30 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan
        bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS
        wme roaming MANUAL

I run wpa_supplicant:

# wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf 
Trying to associate with 00:18:39:e6:46:b6 (SSID='lagartixa' freq=2462 MHz)
Associated with 00:18:39:e6:46:b6
WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:18:39:e6:46:b6 [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP]
CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:18:39:e6:46:b6 completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=]

I got issued the ip address by my wireless router.

I see the card on the router:

DHCP Active IP Table 	  	 
DHCP Server IP Address:   192.168.1.1 	
Client Host Name 	IP Address 	MAC Address 		Expires 	
			192.168.1.104 	00:c0:49:58:00:fe 	23:58:54 	


I get /etc/resolve.conf set up automatically
(through the wired connection):

% cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by resolvconf
search cable.virginmedia.net
nameserver 194.168.4.100
nameserver 194.168.8.100


But I just can't get the wireless connection,
even to the router:

% ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host
^C

On the console I see:

RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1)
RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1)
RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1)
RX decryption attempted (old 0 keyidx 0x1)
firmware version (rev 410 patch 2160 date 0x751a time 0x7c0a)


Please help

What am I doing wrong?
What else can I try?

Many thanks

-- 
Anton Shterenlikht
Room 2.6, Queen's Building
Mech Eng Dept
Bristol University
University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944
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