Latest kernel makes wireless connection to WPA2 router fail

[paul s]

>> In fact, there is:
>> 
>> http://atrpms.net/name/wicd/

that's hot...





On 08/31/2009 05:14 AM, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:28 PM, paul s <fedora-list at queuemail.com 
> <mailto: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
>