[Bug 22211] New: Support for Broadcom Wireless cards partially working in Dapper

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           Summary: Support for Broadcom Wireless cards partially working in
                    Dapper
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: amd64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: linux-restricted-modules
        AssignedTo: adconrad at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: bleu at looponblue.net
         QAContact: kernel-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com


Since I updated to Dapper, I tried to use the new support for Broadcom Wireless
cards provided.
The wireless card is detected, but no connection can be established.

Tests made on a Acer 1510, with a Broadcom 4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN
controller, using linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-11-amd64-k8 (version 2.6.15.4-1)

When I sudo modprobe bcm43xx, my wireless card appears under System ->
Administration -> Networking as eth1. It also shows up when iwconfig :
bleu at bluelaptop:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:"Home"  Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF   Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
          Tx-Power=off
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

When ifconfig, it doesn't shows up. btw, when ifconfig eth1, some info is
displayed :
bleu at bluelaptop:~$ ifconfig eth1
eth1      Lien encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0B:6B:49:DB:60
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  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 lg file transmission:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interruption:10 Adresse de base:0x8000

When trying to connect through the Networking tool, it takes about 10s to
activate, and there's no connection at all. When I sudo ifup eth1, it says the
following :
bleu at bluelaptop:~$ sudo ifup eth1
Password:
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf line 1: no option named dhcp-class-identifier
send dhcp-class-identifier "NetcfgDHClient"
     ^
/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf line 1: semicolon expected.

^
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:0b:6b:49:db:60
Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:0b:6b:49:db:60
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
send_packet: Network is down
receive_packet failed on eth1: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
send_packet: Network is down
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

I tried with or without WEP encryption key, but it doesn't work much.

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