BCM4306 does not work on my Dell X300 either. Tested with the current
Feisty and the card is not detected on boot. After "modprobe bcm43xx" I
get following in my dmesg:
[ 1312.320000] bcm43xx driver
[ 1312.320000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 5
(level, low) -> IRQ 5
[ 1312.608000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
[ 1312.608000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
[ 1312.608000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
[ 1312.608000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
[ 1312.608000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
[ 1312.608000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
[ 1312.608000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
[ 1312.608000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1132
[ 1312.608000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1134
[ 1312.608000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1134
[ 1312.608000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1134
[ 1312.608000] bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1134
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"default" Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.484 GHz Access Point: Invalid
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr: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
sudo iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth1 No scan results
dmesg:
[ 1312.616000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
So it seems that the driver detects the wlan chipset, but just can't handle it.
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BCM4306 do not work on powerbook
https://launchpad.net/bugs/76685
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