bcm43xx wireless drivers.

[Steven Haigh]

On 06/09/2006, at 2:55 AM, Patrick wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 01:01 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
>> Has anyone managed to get a BCM4306 wifi card working with rawhide?
>> I've been trying for quite a while, and with just about every  
>> firmware
>> version I can locate but still not had any luck.
>>
>> With the latest kernel (2.6.17-1.2617.2.1.fc6), I don't even seem to
>> get a list of AP's that are around. From a quick google, it looks as
>> though the bcm43xx driver might be a fair bit out of the actual
>> bcm43xx development - as there seems to be a patch back in July that
>> *may* fix this IRQ issue.
>
> I just gave it a try on my Acer 4005WMLi that is running rawhide as of
> two hours ago. The firmware file used with bcm43xx-fwcutter seems to
> have an impact on the proper working. I used the wl_apsta.o firmware
> file. After that I loaded the bcm43xx module,

Which version was it that you used? I've tried multiple drivers with  
no luck as yet. The latest one I have tried is 4.10.40.0 from the  
Dell driver that I use in Windows.

> configured /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf with my network  
> (uses
> WPA-AES/CCMP) and configured /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant with the
> proper settings. Then started wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth1
> -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and wpa_gui and amazingly
> enough it actually found my AP and authenticated itself  
> successfully and
> got an IP address via DHCP. So this method seems to work. Haven't  
> tried
> NetworkManager yet but my experience with that so far were not good.

I have been trying to use both iwconfig and NetworkManager with no luck.

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Steven Haigh

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