Latest kernel makes wireless connection to WPA2 router fail

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:28 PM, paul s <fedora-list at queuemail.com> wrote:

> i work with a mbp4,1
> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_734339f1-74c4-4607-a763-2ef2378ab19e
>
> which has a BCM4328 adapter...
>
>  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...
>
>
In fact, there is:

http://atrpms.net/name/wicd/



-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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