Latest kernel makes wireless connection to WPA2 router fail

Henrik Frisk frisk.h at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 06:51:57 UTC 2009


> b43                   127352  0
>>> ssb                    39572  1 b43
>>> mac80211              199632  1 b43
>>> cfg80211               37088  2 b43,mac80211
>>> input_polldev           3952  2 b43,applesmc
>>>
>>
> what i don't see is the wl module loaded in your output... perhaps you
> are using another driver or something... but it doesn't look like the
> driver is there...
>
> i'm pretty sure you need to blacklist the b43 driver... these are the
> modules that are blacklist on my mbp:
>
> blacklist bcm43xx
> blacklist ssb
> blacklist b43
> blacklist ndiswrapper
>
> also check to see if these are loaded as they are needed as well for the
> wpa encryption:
> lib80211                6356  2 lib80211_crypt_tkip,wl
> lib80211_crypt_tkip     9296  0
>
>     some error messages from NetworkManager, or wpa_supplicant, that
>>>
>>
> if your ssid is hidden, network manager will not be able to connect for
> some unearthly reason... you might want to use wicd instead, but there
> isn't an rpm for it, however it works lovely...
>
>
OK, thanks all for your input. I will keep investigating this and see what I
come up with.

 The best thing for you to do is to open a Bugzilla bug for the kernel
>> component
>>
>
> no need, broadcom's wireless driver is working with the latest kernel...
>
> Yes, having read the replies here I'm pretty certain it's something todo
with my setup here rather than the kernel.

best,

Henrik
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