Problems with WPA2/AES and Broadcom BCM4318 (AirForce One 54g)

[Karl Larsen]

Robert Scheck wrote:
> Hello Karl,
>
> On Sun, 08 Jul 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>    I know your hardware and laptop. I didn't follow at all how you figured 
>> out which Linux kernel module to use with the hardware. If you can make 
>> that more clear it will help. Have you considered using NetworkManager? It 
>> seems to be quite good. If you can clear up the module question I want to 
>> put your setup in my paper on doing this.
>>     
>
> well...it looks like you're not within the range of users where I was
> expecting an answer from (friendly said). You don't know what a kill switch
> is, you don't know what NetworkManager really does and you don't know WLAN
> at all as deep as needed. This doesn't matter, we all (except some gurus
> maybe) started as guys, knowing nothing or less - but please avoid to blow
> my simple question up like you're currently doing. 
>
> For the time beeing or getting more experienced, you maybe can have a look
> to http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/networkmanager/ to get
> what NetworkManager really is.
>
> The default module bcm43xx-mac80211 didn't bring any success to me, so the
> logical way was to search for a solution which was ndiswrapper. Finally the
> WPA2/AES doesn't work. Alexander Dalloz suggested me to use proto=WPA and
> pairwise/group=CCMP, but as far as I remember, I already tried this today
> and brought no success - I'll retry today to be sure.
>
> Are there common problems regarding WPA2/AES and ndiswrapper? When googling
> for it, I only found less information regarding WPA2/AES/CCMP and even less
> in combination with ndiswrapper.
>
>
> Greetings,
>   Robert
>
>   
I did some Google searching and have the Broadcom software package for 
the BCM 4318 radio and they claim there are Linux kernel drivers in the 
package. Wife and I are going out so tomorrow will be good enough...

Karl