Fedora 7 and bcm43xx_mac802112
John Pierce
john.j35 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 03:24:04 UTC 2007
> 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.
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John
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