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

[Karl Larsen]

Robert Scheck wrote:
> Good evening folks,
>
> I've problems with setting up WPA2/AES at my HP Pavilion ze2000
> (EH708EA#ABD) notebook. It's running Fedora 7 with any updates
> (2.6.21-1.3228.fc7, i686 architecture). Below are the facts from the
> notebook itself and what I already tried.
>
> # lspci | grep Wireless
> 05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
> # 
>
> 05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company MX6125
>         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 64
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 3
>         Region 0: Memory at c0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
>
> I installed ndiswrapper via "yum install ndiswrapper kmod-ndiswrapper -y"
> from Livna without any error. After that I followed the typical install
> method, because the standard bcm43xx-mac80211 kernel module driver doesn't
> work for me (I'm not able to enable the kill switch, my notebook provides).
>
> # rmmod bcm43xx-mac80211
> #
>
> Greetings,
>   Robert
>
>   

    Hi Robert, you have a kernel problem. It might be due to the fact 
that Red Hat got your driver from Broadcom as a Fedora Core 3 rpm! And 
your driver has likely been the same since then. I find that driver in 
the Fedora 7 update kernel.

    To solve the conflict between the two drivers is well above my 
experience.

Karl