Wireless problem

[Juan Machuca EA7FNJ]

WiFi Card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Proccesor:AMD Turion 64 Mobile ML-28
O.S: KUBUNTU 6.04 Dapper Drake Flight 5
Kernel: Linux EA7FNJ 2.6.15-18-amd64-generic #1 SMP
PREEMPT Thu Mar 9 14:37:22 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[  108.514121] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm
'NULL'
[  108.525596] ieee80211: 802.11
data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7
[  108.525736] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005
Intel Corporation <jketreno at linux.intel.com>
[  108.538432] bcm43xx driver
[  108.539016] GSI 22 sharing vector 0xE1 and IRQ 22
[  108.539130] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:02.0[A] ->
GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 225
[  108.581639] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm
'WEP'
[  108.630932] bcm43xx: Error: Microcode
"bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
[  108.638856] bcm43xx: Error: Microcode
"bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
[  135.305923] bcm43xx: Error: Microcode
"bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
[  135.313846] bcm43xx: Error: Microcode
"bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
[  148.720997] bcm43xx: Error: Microcode
"bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
[  161.119851] bcm43xx: Error: Microcode
"bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
[  193.110210] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device
0000:05:02.0 disabled
[  197.420952] ndiswrapper version 1.10 loaded
(preempt=yes,smp=yes)
[  306.504088] APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)
[  316.743079] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[  342.953860] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[  365.887645] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[  433.029989] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[  469.069260] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[  546.250315] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[  582.323724] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[  582.462514] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[  605.396802] Losing some ticks... checking if CPU
frequency changed.
[  772.586740] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)    


two things:

1.- If use BCM43xx, I see the card but I can't use it
2.- If I use NDISWRAPPER with a 64bit driver, I can't
see wlan0. If use 32bit driver, doesn't loaded it.

Any idea?


 --- Luka Renko <74.luka at gmail.com> escribió:

> On 3/21/06, Juan Machuca EA7FNJ <esp7xx at yahoo.es>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I was investigating my WiFi chipset and it's a
> BroadCom BCM4318. I do
> > all the steps that comes into the guide to install
> the WiFi into KUBUNTU
> > Dapper Drake 6.04 with BCM43xx and nothinf. Those
> are the messages that I
> > request:
> 
> 
> There seems to be two changes to bcm43xx driver in
> todays (2.6.15-19) kernel
> update. You may want to try that.
> 
> Mar 21 00:48:01 localhost kernel: [  623.846470]
> bcm43xx: Error: Microcode
> > "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load
> failed.
> 
> 
> This is not good - it means that FW was not properly
> loaded on the card,
> therefore it can hardly work.
> 
> eth1      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:"casa" 
> Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
> >            Mode:Managed  Access Point: Invalid  
> Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
> >            RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
> >            Encryption key:2A2A-2A2A-2A   Security
> mode:open
> 
> 
> and this seems to be the result: cannot get proper
> data from you wireless
> AP (AP should be hex address and not "invalid")
> 
> I would try latest kernel and maybe search for
> update FW release...
> 
> Regards,
> Luka
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