Re: b43: BCM 4331: MacBook 8,1: No connection after suspend

From: John W. Linville
Date: Fri Nov 18 2011 - 14:30:30 EST


Arend has nothing to do with b43, and b43 has it's own
mailing list, b43-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Even if it didn't,
linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx would be a more appropriate list than
this one.

John

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 06:32:42PM +0100, Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote:
> Hello,
>
> new notebook, new problems (*):
>
> Running 3.2.0-rc1 on the MacBook Pro 8,1 with the BCM4331
> (14e4:4331) the WLAN indeed works:
>
> [ 86.231702] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4331 WLAN found (core revision 29)
> [ 86.269190] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm
> 'minstrel_ht'
> [ 86.270486] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS ]
> [ 87.677265] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23
> 01:15:07)
>
> But: After a suspend it seems not to receive any packets anymore:
>
> [ 2334.494845] wlan0: authenticate with 64:87:d7:37:89:89 (try 1)
> [ 2334.694035] wlan0: authenticate with 64:87:d7:37:89:89 (try 2)
> [ 2334.893909] wlan0: authenticate with 64:87:d7:37:89:89 (try 3)
> [ 2335.093824] wlan0: authentication with 64:87:d7:37:89:89 timed out
>
> wpa_supplicant thus retries to connect to the network again and again
> without success.
>
> This is reproducable on the MBP 8,1 and is *NOT* fixed if I unload
> b43 and modprobe it again. It is also "not fixed" when doing
> multiple suspends/resumes.
>
> Any pointers to this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nico
>
>
> (*) feels like in good old times...
>
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