On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:46:56 +0000 (UTC), Camaleón writes: > Our cell phone provider has given us a netbook that embeds a broadcom > 4313 wifi chipset¹. > > This card seems to be supported by the new -and open source- brcmsmac > driver² (still in a staging development) but I am having problems to > associate it with my AP. > > All seems going fine (wlan0 interface is created and NM sees the AP) but > I only get "authentication with [ap-mac] timed out" in dmesg and nothing > more. Other USB cards I have tested (based on rt73 and rt2xxx chipsets) > are working okay so I guess the AP is not the problem here but the driver. > > I wonder if someone is currently using this driver and what are his/her > experiences. > > ¹http://wiki.debian.org/brcm80211 > ²http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211
I'm using brcmsmac since 1 year without a problem. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ lspci -vnn | grep Broadcom -A 5 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01) Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device [144f:7179] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 Memory at f3800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: brcmsmac $ lsmod | grep -E brcm brcmsmac 485123 0 mac80211 152890 1 brcmsmac cfg80211 98676 2 brcmsmac,mac80211 $ uname -r 2.6.39.3-vy.20110710 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- BTW, if I were you, instead of relying on nm, I'd manually try to connect to the AP. That is, --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- # ifconfig wlan0 up # emacs /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf # wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Now check the wpa_supplicant debug outputs. Moreover, if you can see a valid mac addr in the "Access Point" field of the "iwconfig wlan0" output, Wi-Fi assoc is ok and you're struggling with the encryption part. Best. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/878vrfzjlq....@alamut.ozun.int