Re: nm-applet do not show my wireless

[Alejandro Adam <aleadam gmail com>]

I built a kernel 2.6.21.1.
Everything seems to work fine (nm-applet see the wireless connection
without the essid definition in /etc/interfaces), even the reported signal 
strength seems to be more realistic than with the old kernel, but iwconfig 
gives me a warning about wireless extension version 22 not supported and it 
can not obtain an ip address (if I boot with the 2.6.18 kernel it connects).

$iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

Warning: Driver for device eth2 has been compiled with version 22
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
Some things may be broken...

eth2      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.437 GHz  Access Point:
00:14:BF:1C:80:36
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality=0/100  Signal level=-256 dBm  Noise level=-256
dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.


On boot I get the following:

May  5 15:38:24 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 13
channels starting with channel 1
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0260 (RX) max used
slots: 1/64
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0200 (RX) max used
slots: 1/64
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x02A0 (TX) max used
slots: 0/512
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0280 (TX) max used
slots: 0/512
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0260 (TX) max used
slots: 0/512
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0240 (TX) max used
slots: 0/512
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0220 (TX) max used
slots: 3/512
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0200 (TX) max used
slots: 0/512
May  5 15:38:43 localhost dhclient: receive_packet failed on eth2:
Network is down
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Canceling existing associate
request!
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for
networks first.
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate
scan. Is device up?
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: set security called, .level =
0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0
May  5 15:38:43 localhost dhclient: There is already a pid
file /var/run/dhclient.eth2.pid with pid 1699
May  5 15:38:43 localhost dhclient: removed stale PID file
May  5 15:38:43 localhost dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP
Client V3.0.4
May  5 15:38:43 localhost dhclient: Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems
Consortium.
May  5 15:38:43 localhost dhclient: All rights reserved.
May  5 15:38:43 localhost dhclient: For info, please visit
http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
May  5 15:38:43 localhost dhclient: 
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: PHY disconnected
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x127, pl 0xe
(2005-04-18  02:36:27)
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned on
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Chip initialized
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: 30-bit DMA initialized
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in
keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1144
May  5 15:38:43 localhost last message repeated 7 times
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in
keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1146
May  5 15:38:43 localhost last message repeated 3 times
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Keys cleared
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype
2)
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication
Request to 00:14:bf:1c:80:36
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Cannot associate without
being authenticated, requested authentication
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request
to 00:14:bf:1c:80:36.
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed
with 00:14:bf:1c:80:36
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: sent association request!
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Authentication response
received from 00:14:bf:1c:80:36 but no queue item exists.
May  5 15:38:43 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: associated!
May  5 15:38:44 localhost dhclient: Listening on
LPF/eth2/00:90:4b:71:a5:70
May  5 15:38:44 localhost dhclient: Sending on
LPF/eth2/00:90:4b:71:a5:70
May  5 15:38:44 localhost dhclient: Sending on   Socket/fallback
May  5 15:38:45 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
May  5 15:38:50 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
May  5 15:38:53 localhost kernel: eth2: no IPv6 routers present
May  5 15:38:55 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
May  5 15:39:04 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
May  5 15:39:15 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
May  5 15:39:24 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
May  5 15:39:40 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
May  5 15:39:46 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
May  5 15:39:46 localhost dhclient: No working leases in persistent
database - sleeping.
May  5 15:39:48 localhost kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 13
channels starting with channel 1


On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 22:44 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: 
> Alejandro Adam wrote:
> > Dan
> > 
> > Thanks for the quick answer. Here I'm trying to answer your questions. I
> > couldn't find anything wrong with the wireless configuration (it works,
> > in fact). But the applet still does not see it. 
> > 
> > The applet is the stable deb package
> > 
> > valhalla:/home/alejandro# nm-applet --version
> > Gnome nm-applet 0.6.4
> > 
> > The kernel version is 2.6.18-4-686. It is the latest stable deb package
> > also. I didn't compile it by myself. For the module, at the bottom I
> > pasted a portion of /var/log/syslog in case is useful.
> 
> I'm not sure that 2.6.18 reports wireless statistics anywhere near correctly. I do know that the 
> performance is greatly improved in 2.6.21. You should download and build a later version, or get my 
> standalone package from ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/bcm43xx-softmac-sa.tar.bz2.
> 
> Your firmware is OK - it is the latest version that can be used with bcm43xx.
> 
> Larry
>