help me with the wireless LAN on Acer 5300

[johnrw]

I uninstalled the bcm43xx and reinstalled it with bcm43xx-fwcutter.

lsmod | grep bcm43xx
bcm43xx 417768 0
ieee80211softmac 27008 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 33864 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
firmware_class 11648 2 bcm43xx,pcmcia

This looks normal, right?

Good so far.

dmeg | grep bcm43xx show some errors.

bcm43xx driver
bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2
bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, disabled
bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x804, rev 0xc, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x80d, rev 0x7, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 3, Type 2, Revision 7
bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 8205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev:
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.

the stuff above is where the driver fails on bootup...
Below that, looks good except I don't see this line... or something similar

ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
(from my driver output above)

bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (radio_attenuation < 10) at: drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_phy.c:1485:bcm43xx_find_lopair()
bcm43xx: ASSERTION FAILED (radio_attenuation < 10) at: drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_phy.c:1485:bcm43xx_find_lopair()

This looks like something is still getting in the way. IRQ conflict. Wrong driver files ,DMA who knows...
antenna signal is probably zero as seen by the driver (without looking at driver source)

which firmware did you use? You need to get the right driver files for this to work... pay attention to 32 or 64 bit.

what does lspci say?

If you look here for a driver that matches yoour card... and use firmware cutter on one of those.
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List
that would be a good starting point.

best,
john