hp 2133 BCM4312 problems.

[Grub3r]

Hi there,

have been struggling with this for many days now.


The setup is as follows:

minimal F14 on a hp2133 with bcm4312.

kernel:

2.6.35.9-64.fc14.i686.PAE

the card:

02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 02)

i have tried both extracting firmware with b43-fwcutter and kmod-wl-PAE

the result is the same, when I try to use the wlan-card the system freezes and it's random when it freezes.

when the card is upped:
ifup wlan0:

Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

it comes up and the light is blue(orange when it's down)

I do wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 ...
it may or may not freeze here

I do dhclient wlan0: it sure freezes here

sometimes it freezes when I do iwlist wlan0 scan.
I just dont understand what am I doing wrong.

the same setup just works on an Intel 4965AGN card.(Lenovo X61 lappy)

any help would be appreciated.


Thanks, Gr0b

[Grub3r]

managed to get ip, but froze when trying to ping google.com


-Gr0b

[Rubberman]

Some drivers have problems with PAE-enabled kernels. Have you tried with a vanilla i686 kernel? Also, I have a broadcom chipset in my Dell D630 that works well with Ubuntu 10.10 in x86_64 (64-bit) mode, after I installed the proprietary firmware.

[Grub3r]

Hi Rubberman,

tried non PAE kernel, same problem. maybe this is one of the chipsets that is not supported at all. win7 works just fine, no hw failure...

Regards, Gr0b