[driverloader] BCM4301MP Difficulties

[Marc Boucher]

Hi,

please send the output of dldrconfig --dumpdiag to support at linuxant.com

Marc

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 09:14:51AM -0500, mfeit+linuxant at notonthe.net wrote:
> Greetings...
> 
> I'm using a Dell TrueMobile 1180 (Broadcom BCM4301MP, with the latest
> driver available from Dell) with Red Hat 9.0.  I had no trouble
> getting the driver and license loaded, but iwconfig doesn't want to
> support a few of the more important parts of getting associated with
> my access point:
> 
>  | # ip a
>  |  ...
>  | 12: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 100
>  |     link/ether 00:90:4b:b0:92:7f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>  | 
>  | # iwlist eth2 ap
>  | eth2      Access Points in range:
>  |     00:06:25:7B:DA:CF : Quality:1/1  Signal level:-44 dBm  Noise level:-200 dBm (updated)
>  | 
>  | # ifup eth2
>  | Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
>  |     SET failed on device eth2 ; Invalid argument.
>  | Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
>  |     SET failed on device eth2 ; Operation not supported.
>  | Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
>  |     SET failed on device eth2 ; Operation not supported.
>  | 
>  | Determining IP information for eth2... failed.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 							- Mark
> 
> P.S.: Driverloader is a great idea.  It's a shame such a thing has to
> exist, especially when Broadcom has a perfectly good Linux driver
> in-house they just won't release.