Well, on the linuxquestions.org forums, they suggested I check my iee82011
modules so I added a TKIP iee82011 module in my kernel, recompiled and
rebooted with the new kernel. I had all the other iee82011 modules enabled
before, except for that one. After the reboot, I tried the same thing and
all I can say is NO DICE!
Same error!!
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
I've officially been an linux user for 2 weeks now, I had Suse before hand,
but wanted to turn my laptop into a powerhouse for live music performance so
I installed gentoo. NOT A FUN EXPERIENCE!!!! Well, I have everything running
on gentoo except KNetworkManager (can't figure out how to get the gui
running) and wireless. Wireless worked with encryption right off the bat
with Suse, but not this SOB!AARGE!
w John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:14:49 -0400
> "Chris Delahousse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
>
>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I have a problem with my wireless card. I went looking back to the list
>> archives and found out that Arul had a problem almost EXACTLY like
mine. The
>> only differences is that I'm using the amd64bit 2.6.19-r5 kernel on a
Compaq
>> Presario R3440CA. Here's his problem. Same as mine, but there wasn't
any say
>> of how to correct it.
>>
>
> I don't need to use WEP, so I haven't paid much attention to this. But
> I know I have read somewhere that the bcm43xx driver can't do WEP or
> has a problem with it or something. And I dimly recall that the
> solution was to blacklist the bcm43xx driver and use ndiswrapper
> instead. I would bet that I read this on Ubuntu forums, since Ubuntu
> amd64 is all I have ever run on my R3240. Personally I could never get
> the bcm43xx driver to work at all with the Broadcom 4306, so I just use
> ndiswrapper. Somewhere I have a bookmark to an Ubuntu how-to on
> installing ndiswrapper with the 4306. I'll dig it out if you need it.
>
Hmmmmm, maybe the solution is moving to a 2.6.20 kernel? Last Monday I
tried WEP *AND* WPA with a Linksys router, using the BCM43xx (built as
module) and I am happy to say it worked PERFECTLY. (The router, by the
way, had been loaded the openWrt "White Russian" Linux distro for
embedded devices. It is relatively easy to replace the original
firmware with OpenWrt on --at least some-- Linksys wireless routers.
More details at http://openwrt.org/ .) I got WPA to work on the very
first try (judging from the output of 'iwevent', running in a separate
window). Last time I tried to get WPA to work was about a year ago and
under ndiswrapper running under a 2.6.16 kernel. I had no success (WEP
was working fine, but I wanted WPA!).
I run SuSE 10.2 64-bit, but I have upgraded to a plain vanilla kernel
2.6.20.6 and I have enabled full preemption. With the latest "SuSEfied"
2.6.18.2 kernel I have only tried unencrypted wifi connections (again
with the BCM43xx built as module, not in the kernel). It worked OK, BUT
I got flaky numbers, something like -170dBm for signal strength and
100/100 signal quality (!!!!!) on each and every network detected (via
the 'iwlist wlan0 scanning' command --the wifi shows as 'eth?', but I
hacked the relevant file in '/etc/udev/rules.d/' to make it appear as a
symbolic link to wlan0, so I did not have to change my firewall
scripts). I saw none of these problems with the 2.6.20 kernel.
Do you have all the necessary options enabled in your kernel?
On March 26, 2007, Mr. Jose Carlos responded to one of my earlier
postings about the initial success I had with the BCM43xx driver,
suggesting that I go for an Atheros cardbus wifi. This was a very
insightful suggestion (thank you, Mr. Carlos!), but what if I need to
use the cardbus slot while being connected to a wifi network? The
BCM43xx does have its merits despite its shortcomings. If the BIOS
allowed the replacement of the Broadcom wifi with a better solution, it
would be great, but it doesn't, so we are stuck with the Broadcom wifi,
unless we can spare the cardbus slot and/or, perhaps, a USB port.
--
Running 64-bit Linux on AMD64
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