"John Pierce" john.j35@gmail.com wrote:
This is the closest I have ever gotten with the bcm43xx driver on this laptop. OpenSuSE 10.2 will not even see the hardware.
I am using the latest firmware which I extracted with bcm43xx-fwcutter and have it placed in /lib/firmware.
If anyone has any ideas, thoughts, suggestions I would appreciate them.
Under FC6 I was able to get my laptop (HP zv6015us with a Broadcom 4306 wireless NIC) to work with the bcm43xx driver only if I disabled authentication on my AP. You might give this a *brief* try. That is, set your AP as open and see if you can connect. If you can connect and you're sure that you have the authentication set up correctly on your laptop then it sounds like bcm43xx still doesn't like to authenticate. If you still can't connect, there's always ndiswrapper. I'm currently running the 1.45 version of ndiswrapper with a 2.6.21.3 kernel under CentOS 5 and the connection is very stable. Also, I'm currently running WPA-PSK authentication.
Cheers, Dave
Under FC6 I was able to get my laptop (HP zv6015us with a Broadcom 4306 wireless NIC) to work with the bcm43xx driver only if I disabled authentication on my AP. You might give this a *brief* try. That is, set your AP as open and see if you can connect. If you can connect and you're sure that you have the authentication set up correctly on your laptop then it sounds like bcm43xx still doesn't like to authenticate. If you still can't connect, there's always ndiswrapper. I'm currently running the 1.45 version of ndiswrapper with a 2.6.21.3 kernel under CentOS 5 and the connection is very stable. Also, I'm currently running WPA-PSK authentication.
Cheers, Dave
Thanks for the reply Dave.
I have not tried to open the system, I will though. I have tried the ndiswrapper 1.45 on the stock kernel from the fedora 7 install, it is 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7. I have not been able to get the ndiswrapper to work either, I had it working with 1.27 on opensuse 10.2 which was a 2.6.18 kernel.
I have tried both hex and ascii for my key and neither works. I must admit this is the first time I have been able to get the system scanning with the native driver bcm43xx_mac80211.
I will post back my results.
"John Pierce" john.j35@gmail.com writes:
I have tried both hex and ascii for my key and neither works. I must admit this is the first time I have been able to get the system scanning with the native driver bcm43xx_mac80211.
Fedora-7 broke something with WPA authenication for me. The only way I could get authentication to work is to hack the wpa_supplicant startup to the end of ifup-wireless.
If wpa_supplicant was started before the network it would loop and never associate. If it was started after the network it would associate but the dhclient started by the network startup code would never ask for an IP address.
I don't know if your problem is similar but lack of association rang a bell.
-wolfgang
I don't know if your problem is similar but lack of association rang a bell.
-wolfgang
I appreciate you reply, I am using wep encryption. I did try it with wpa-psk which is what my router uses. Still no joy.
I tried it with encryption disabled completely, with wpa-psk wep 64 and 128 bit. I tried changing my key. Still no joy.
As I said in a previous post, I cannot even get it to work with the ndiswrapper.
One more question, on your centos 5 did you build the kernel yourself, or was it one of the updates?
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