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Bug 311429 - net-wireless/broadcom-sta-5.60.48.36 and TKIP breaks dhcp
Summary: net-wireless/broadcom-sta-5.60.48.36 and TKIP breaks dhcp
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 306189
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: MATSUU Takuto (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2010-03-26 11:53 UTC by Thomas Zwaagstra
Modified: 2010-03-28 20:35 UTC (History)
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Description Thomas Zwaagstra 2010-03-26 11:53:06 UTC
When using the broadcom-sta driver (at least version 5.60.48.36, possibly others), dhcp does not work.  The only work-around is to manually specify the IP information, through NetworkManager, dhcpcd -S, or otherwise.

There are a few vague references to this problem online, for example:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1147055

I've also been unable to run zeroconf-based services (mediatomb, pidgin zeroconf, etc) over the wireless interface, which may be a related problem.  This could have something do with broadcast?
Comment 1 Thomas Zwaagstra 2010-03-26 11:54:20 UTC
emerge --info

Portage 2.1.7.17 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.32-tuxonice-r5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.32-tuxonice-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9550_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:00:02 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4-r1
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.10.3
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc:       4.3.4
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="C"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi amd64 apache2 autoipd avahi berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus disk-partition dri exif fortran fuse gd gdbm gnome gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 java jpeg laptop libnotify madwifi mdnsresponder-compat mmx modules mudflap multilib mysql ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl php png policykit pppd pulseaudio python readline reflection samba session spell spl sse sse2 ssh ssl sysfs tcpd truetype unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard synaptics mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Comment 2 Thomas Zwaagstra 2010-03-27 11:13:12 UTC
DHCP and zeroconf/avahi services
Comment 3 Thomas Zwaagstra 2010-03-27 11:19:34 UTC
Further testing reveals that DHCP and zeroconf/avahi services work on broadcom-sta, EXCEPT when using TKIP.

Temporary remedy: switch TKIP networks to AES.

What other information or tests would be useful?  How should I debug this?
Comment 4 Thomas Zwaagstra 2010-03-28 20:35:25 UTC
sorry, this is really the same issue as bug 306189, marking as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 306189 ***