broadcom 4311 in backtrack need help

[leutranh]

im new to linux please help!!!!!!!!
connection failled when i try connect to my wifi

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4311"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: Invalid
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm
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

bt ~ # iwconfig essid ******019439
bt ~ # iwconfig key *************
bt ~ # ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1A:73:27:FF:17
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:353 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12413 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:541416 (528.7 KiB)
Interrupt:11

bt ~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 83)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB450 HDA Audio (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)
08:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
08:09.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
08:09.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
bt ~ #

[waterhead]

Broadcom wireless chips need firmware installed before they will work properly. Since it is considered to be proprietary, no distros include it, that I know of. Here is a link to instructions for installing it.

b43 - Linux Wireless

Some distros have b43-fwcutter available as a package, but I don't know about backtrack.

[leutranh]

i use backtrack 3 it had NetworkManager and support broadcom
i can see all wireless name but when try to connect it came out "connection failled" even when its open wireless
bt ~ # ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1A:73:27:FF:17
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:21 errors:0 dropped:306 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1083 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:5574 (5.4 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

bt ~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4311"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:12:0E:6F:6A:EC
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm
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

bt ~ # dmesg
Linux version 2.6.21.5 (root@bt) (gcc version 4.1.2) #4 SMP Thu Apr 10 04:23:56
GMT 2008
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
sanitize start
sanitize end
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009dc00 end: 000000000009
dc00 type: 1
copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009dc00 size: 0000000000002400 end: 00000000000a
0000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000d2000 size: 000000000002e000 end: 000000000010
0000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 0000000037d80000 end: 0000000037e8
0000 type: 1
copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000037e80000 size: 0000000000012000 end: 0000000037e9
2000 type: 3
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000037e92000 size: 000000000006e000 end: 0000000037f0
0000 type: 4
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000037f00000 size: 0000000008100000 end: 000000004000
0000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000e0000000 size: 0000000010000000 end: 00000000f000
0000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fec00000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 00000000fec1
0000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fee00000 size: 0000000000001000 end: 00000000fee0
1000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fff80000 size: 0000000000080000 end: 000000010000
0000 type: 2
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009dc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009dc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d2000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000037e80000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000037e80000 - 0000000037e92000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000037e92000 - 0000000037f00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000037f00000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
894MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f85d0
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 228992) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
Normal 4096 -> 228992
HighMem 228992 -> 228992
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 228992
On node 0 totalpages: 228992
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 1757 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 223139 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI present.
ACPI: RSDP 000F8530, 0014 (r0 PTLTD )
ACPI: RSDT 37E8C396, 0038 (r1 GATEWA SYSTEM 20061101 LTP 0)
ACPI: FACP 37E91BFA, 0074 (r1 GATEWA SYSTEM 20061101 ATI F4240)
ACPI: DSDT 37E8C3CE, 582C (r1 GATEWA SYSTEM 20061101 MSFT 100000E)
ACPI: FACS 37E92FC0, 0040
ACPI: SSDT 37E91C6E, 0182 (r1 GATEWA SYSTEM 20061101 LTP 1)
ACPI: APIC 37E91DF0, 005E (r1 GATEWA SYSTEM 20061101 LTP 0)
ACPI: MCFG 37E91E4E, 003C (r1 GATEWA SYSTEM 20061101 LTP 0)
ACPI: SLIC 37E91E8A, 0176 (r1 GATEWA SYSTEM 20061101 LTP 0)
ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254.
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:8 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 15:8 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 21 low level)
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000)
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 227203
Kernel command line: vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/d
ev/ram0 rw autoexec=xconf;kdm BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Detected 1596.134 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 896664k/915968k available (6006k kernel code, 18876k reserved, 1918k dat
a, 388k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xffe16000 - 0xfffff000 (1956 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf7e80000 ( 894 MB)
.init : 0xc08c6000 - 0xc0927000 ( 388 kB)
.data : 0xc06dd85d - 0xc08bd3ac (1918 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc06dd85d (6006 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3195.47 BogoMIPS (lpj=6390943)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000000 00002001
00000000 0000001f
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU 0(2) -> Core 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000410 00002001 0000000
0 0000001f
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Freeing SMP alternatives: 23k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20070126
CPU0: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 stepping 02
Booting processor 1/1 eip 2000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3192.27 BogoMIPS (lpj=6384559)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000000 00002001
00000000 0000001f
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU 1(2) -> Core 1
CPU: After all inits, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00004410 00002001 0000000
0 0000001f
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 stepping 02
Total of 2 processors activated (6387.75 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
Brought up 2 CPUs
migration_cost=4000
NET: Registered protocol family 16
No dock devices found.
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
PCI: No mmconfig possible on device 00:18
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Boot video device is 0000:01:05.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PB4_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PB5_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKU] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
raid6: int32x1 709 MB/s
raid6: int32x2 610 MB/s
raid6: int32x4 536 MB/s
raid6: int32x8 375 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1 1311 MB/s
raid6: mmxx2 2457 MB/s
raid6: sse1x1 1282 MB/s
raid6: sse1x2 2109 MB/s
raid6: sse2x1 2172 MB/s
raid6: sse2x2 2918 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm sse2x2 (2918 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
raid5: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse
pIII_sse : 4864.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (4864.000 MB/sec)
md: multipath personality registered for level -4
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
TCP cubic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Starting balanced_irq
Using IPI Shortcut mode
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 388k freed
squashfs: version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/15) Phillip Lougher
squashfs: LZMA suppport for slax.org by jro
aufs 20070618
fuse init (API version 7.
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop0: rw=0, want=492, limit=488
UDF-fs: No VRS found
(1209,1):ocfs2_fill_super:561 ERROR: superblock probe failed!
GFS2: Unrecognized block device or mount point /dev/loop0
GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:08:09.0 [107b:0367]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:08:09.0, mfunc 0x01ac1b22, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0ef8, PCI irq 16
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x2000 - 0x2fff
cs: IO port probe 0x2000-0x2fff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xc0400000 - 0xc04fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x50000000 - 0x53ffffff
MINIX-fs: blocksize too small for device
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
MINIX-fs: blocksize too small for device
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
UDF-fs: No VRS found
(1941,1):ocfs2_fill_super:561 ERROR: superblock probe failed!
GFS2: Unrecognized block device or mount point /dev/loop1
GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop2: rw=0, want=24, limit=8
ReiserFS: loop2: warning: sh-2006: read_super_block: bread failed (dev loop2, bl
ock 2, size 4096)
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop2: rw=0, want=136, limit=8
ReiserFS: loop2: warning: sh-2006: read_super_block: bread failed (dev loop2, bl
ock 16, size 4096)
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop2: rw=0, want=66, limit=8
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=loop2, iso_blknum=16, block=32
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop2: rw=0, want=68, limit=8
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop2: rw=0, want=1252, limit=8
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop2: rw=0, want=1028, limit=8
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop2: rw=0, want=72, limit=8
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop2: rw=0, want=128, limit=8
(2068,0):ocfs2_sb_probe:463 ERROR: incompatible version: 2.1903388787
(2068,0):ocfs2_sb_probe:476 ERROR: This is an ocfs v1 filesystem which must be u
pgraded before mounting with ocfs v2
(2068,0):ocfs2_fill_super:561 ERROR: superblock probe failed!
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop2: rw=48, want=136, limit=8
gfs2: error -5 reading superblock
GFS2: Unrecognized block device or mount point /dev/loop2
GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist
UDF-fs: No VRS found
(2195,0):ocfs2_fill_super:561 ERROR: superblock probe failed!
GFS2: Unrecognized block device or mount point /dev/loop3
GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop4: rw=0, want=24, limit=8
ReiserFS: loop4: warning: sh-2006: read_super_block: bread failed (dev loop4, bl
ock 2, size 4096)
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop4: rw=0, want=136, limit=8
ReiserFS: loop4: warning: sh-2006: read_super_block: bread failed (dev loop4, bl
ock 16, size 4096)
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop4: rw=0, want=66, limit=8
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=loop4, iso_blknum=16, block=32
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop4: rw=0, want=68, limit=8
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop4: rw=0, want=1252, limit=8
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop4: rw=0, want=1028, limit=8
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop4: rw=0, want=72, limit=8
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop4: rw=0, want=128, limit=8
(2322,0):ocfs2_sb_probe:463 ERROR: incompatible version: 2.1903388787
(2322,0):ocfs2_sb_probe:476 ERROR: This is an ocfs v1 filesystem which must be u
pgraded before mounting with ocfs v2
(2322,0):ocfs2_fill_super:561 ERROR: superblock probe failed!
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop4: rw=48, want=136, limit=8
gfs2: error -5 reading superblock
GFS2: Unrecognized block device or mount point /dev/loop4
GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist
UDF-fs: No VRS found
(2449,0):ocfs2_fill_super:561 ERROR: superblock probe failed!
GFS2: Unrecognized block device or mount point /dev/loop5
GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist
UDF-fs: No VRS found
(2576,1):ocfs2_fill_super:561 ERROR: superblock probe failed!
GFS2: Unrecognized block device or mount point /dev/loop6
GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist
UDF-fs: No VRS found
(2703,0):ocfs2_fill_super:561 ERROR: superblock probe failed!
GFS2: Unrecognized block device or mount point /dev/loop7
GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist
UDF-fs: No VRS found
(2830,0):ocfs2_fill_super:561 ERROR: superblock probe failed!
GFS2: Unrecognized block device or mount point /dev/loop8
GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist
UDF-fs: No VRS found
(2957,0):ocfs2_fill_super:561 ERROR: superblock probe failed!
GFS2: Unrecognized block device or mount point /dev/loop9
GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist
UDF-fs: No VRS found
(3084,0):ocfs2_fill_super:561 ERROR: superblock probe failed!
GFS2: Unrecognized block device or mount point /dev/loop10
GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist
UDF-fs: No VRS found
(3211,0):ocfs2_fill_super:561 ERROR: superblock probe failed!
GFS2: Unrecognized block device or mount point /dev/loop11
GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist
fuse exit
Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: Found 0000:00:14.0 device
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:08:09.0 [107b:0367]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:08:09.0, mfunc 0x01ac1b22, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0ef8, PCI irq 16
Socket status: 30000086
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x2000 - 0x2fff
cs: IO port probe 0x2000-0x2fff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xc0400000 - 0xc04fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x50000000 - 0x53ffffff
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:09.2[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: excluding 0xc00-0xc07 0xc10-0xc17 0xc50-0xc57 0xc
68-0xc6f 0xcd0-0xcdf
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
sky2 0000:02:00.0: v1.14 addr 0xc0200000 irq 17 Yukon-FE (0xb7) rev 1
sky2 eth0: addr 00:e0:b8:bb:5b:21
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
bcm43xx driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64
bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4311, rev 0x1
bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x11, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0xa, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x817, rev 0x3, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x820, rev 0x1, vendor 0x4243
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Analog: 4, Type 2, Revision 8
bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2)
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input6
input: ImPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input7
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
fuse init (API version 7.
Capability LSM initialized
sky2 eth0: enabling interface
sky2 eth0: ram buffer 4K
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x123, pl 0x23 (2005-03-22 00:11:1
bcm43xx: Radio turned on
bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware
bcm43xx: Chip initialized
bcm43xx: 32-bit DMA initialized
bcm43xx: Keys cleared
bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
hda-intel: Invalid position buffer, using LPIB read method instead.
sky2 eth0: disabling interface
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 1/64
bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x02A0 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0280 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0260 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0220 (TX) max used slots: 1/512
bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/512
bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x123, pl 0x23 (2005-03-22 00:11:1
bcm43xx: Radio turned on
bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware
bcm43xx: Chip initialized
bcm43xx: 32-bit DMA initialized
bcm43xx: Keys cleared
bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2)
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
bcm43xx: set security called, .active_key = 0, .level = 1, .enabled = 1, .encryp t = 1, .auth_mode = 0
SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:12:0e:6f:6a:ec
bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0
bcm43xx: set security called, .active_key = 0, .level = 1, .enabled = 1, .encryp t = 1, .auth_mode = 0
bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0
bt ~ # iwconfig eth0 essid ************
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device eth0 ; No such device.
bt ~ # iwconfig eth0
eth0 no wireless extensions.

[waterhead]

Broadcom wireless is supported in the Linux kernel, which Backtrack uses. You still need firmware installed for it to work.

It looks as if it is using the bcm43xx driver. This driver has been replaced by the b43 and b43legacy drivers. The Backtrack web site says that it is using the 2.6.21.5 kernel, so the b43 driver should be available. It needs firmware to work too.

Post the output of these commands.

lsmod

uname -r

dmesg | grep firmware

If backtrack does not support the b43 driver, then I would suggest using a Linux distro that does. The bcm43xx driver was so poor, using NDISwrapper with the WinXP driver was considered a better option.

[waterhead]

OK, I wanted to see what you were talking about. So I downloaded Backtrack, and ran it on my laptop with a Broadcom wireless.

First, I have to say that the layout is similar to some older distros, Suse 10.0 or even 9.3 come to mind. And it is using the bcm43xx driver. I tried to load the b43 driver, but it failed. There does seem to be firmware for it too, so that's not the problem.

The trouble that I had seems to be with connecting to WPA encrypted connections. In "the old days" we used wpa_supplicant. When I tried to set it up using the terminal commands, it wouldn't accept "broadcom" as the driver, yet the man pages say it is an option. I believe that this is the stumbling block.

When I used to use wpa_supplicant, it was with NDISwrapper. As I said in my previous post, this was because of the poor performance of the bcm43xx driver.

I would say that you need to use NDISwrapper and the WinXP driver for your card, but I don't see anyway to add software to the system. To compile it, you would need the kernel source, and that is missing too. You would also have to set up the /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file for the network that you want to connect to. Then to get it working, use this command.

wpa_supplicant -Dndiswrapper -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

I think that you should just use a more wireless friendly distro. Ubuntu, Suse and Fedora are some that I have used, and I'm sure that there are others.

[leutranh]

thank for help
sorry wasting ur time
think i should try otherone

[waterhead]

It's never a waste of time to help someone.

I just noticed something. When you tried to set the ESSID, you used eth0:

bt ~ # iwconfig eth0 essid ************
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
    SET failed on device eth0 ; No such device.
bt ~ # iwconfig eth0
eth0      no wireless extensions.

Yet the wireless is eth1:

bt ~ # iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.
 
eth0      no wireless extensions.
 
eth1      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"Broadcom 4311"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:12:0E:6F:6A:EC
          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=18 dBm
          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

Try it again using eth1 instead of eth0