[Ndiswrapper-general] Problems with Buffalo WLI-CB-54A (BCM94306 802.11g rev 03)

[Mark W. <ma...@aw...>]

Hi

I compiled the latest CVS (it was me who reported the 2.4.x compile =
problem, now fixed, thanks guys :) and everything *seems* to be working. =
Except it isn't. Das blinkenlichten simply don't blinken :( although the =
power does light up.

I have a prism54 in the same laptop and if I configure that with all the =
same iwconfig and ipconfig settings, it works perfectly, so I'm assuming =
it's got to be something wrong on the driver level.

After setting up my ESSID, mode, and key, iwconfig reports:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"Rich T's Laptop" =20
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.462GHz  Cell: AE:41:7D:A8:34:56 =20
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power:16 dBm  =20
          RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B  =20
          Encryption key:0000-0000-00   Security mode:restricted
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-10 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

"Rich T's Laptop" is the ad-hoc network running on a friend's laptop on =
the desk next to mine.
Notice: Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-10 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
There's something wrong there...

iwlist wlan0 scanning:
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: AE:41:7D:A8:34:56
                    ESSID:"Rich T's Laptop"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
                    Mode:Ad-Hoc
                    Frequency:2.462GHz
                    Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rate:1Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11Mb/s

Under WinXP it also only connects at 11Mb/s although this card and my =
friend's laptop are both 802.11g...don't worry about that
The same problem again: Quality:0  Signal Level:0  Noise level:0
If I run wavemon, I can see it reports no signal, no noise, nothing. =
Except Tx power: 1584 dBm (32.00mW). All these values seem to be default =
maximum/minimums. Nothing real being reported.

ifconfig wlan0:
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:07:40:BC:F0:E3 =20
          inet addr:192.168.0.68  Bcast:192.168.0.255  =
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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 txqueuelen:1000=20
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:23 Memory:20800000-20801fff=20

I can ping myself but not any other machines, and the Link light does =
not flash, ever.

From /proc/pci:
  Bus  4, device   0, function  0:
    Network controller: PCI device 14e4:4320 (rev 3).
      IRQ 23.
      Master Capable.  Latency=3D64.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x20800000 [0x20801fff].

From lspci -v:
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev =
03)
    Subsystem: Melco Inc: Unknown device 0324
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 23
    Memory at 20800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=3D8K]

I have tried the drivers from the installation CD, and both drivers =
linked to from =
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/supported_chipsets.html
I get no errors in dmesg with any of those drivers.

I haven't tried linuxant's driverloader yet, and I don't want to!

HELP!

Thanks in advance
Mark