Comment 102 for bug 182716

Hi Larry,

As requested:

bwarren@pippin:~$ dmesg | grep b43
[ 89.647611] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found
[ 89.695716] b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 2, Type 2, Revision 2
[ 89.695773] b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2
[ 318.416438] input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input9
[ 319.717479] b43-phy0 debug: Loading firmware version 351.126 (2006-07-29 05:54:02)
[ 138.583575] b43-phy0 debug: !WARNING! Idle-TSSI phy->cur_idle_tssi measuring failed. (cur=37, tgt=62). Disabling TX power adjustment.
[ 138.583727] b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized
[ 138.584244] b43-phy0 debug: 30-bit DMA initialized
[ 138.585106] Registered led device: b43-phy0:tx
[ 138.585155] Registered led device: b43-phy0:rx
[ 138.585206] Registered led device: b43-phy0:radio
[ 138.585308] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 138.585489] b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started
[ 138.585503] b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2
[ 138.714058] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 138.714278] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[ 194.489854] b43-phy0 debug: Removing Interface type 2
[ 194.629854] b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface stopped
[ 194.630197] b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 1/64
[ 194.630336] b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 0x02A0 (TX) max used slots: 0/128
[ 194.648528] b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 0x0280 (TX) max used slots: 0/128
[ 194.667202] b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 0x0260 (TX) max used slots: 0/128
[ 194.685859] b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/128
[ 194.704545] b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 0x0220 (TX) max used slots: 2/128
[ 194.723189] b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/128
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I'd never used it before, but apparently this laptop has a radio enable/disable bound to Fn+F2. Toggling this function and reloading b43 doesn't seem to make a difference (same dmesg), so I don't know if the key combination is being detected correctly.

Thanks for the background information. Of course I want to help to get b43 working rather than using a deprecated driver.

regards,
Ben