From: John Jason Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Success with kernel BCM wifi driver and WEP and WPA! (Was:
Re:[LinuxR3000] "Set Encode" (8B2A) error)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:00:12 -0700
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:35:50 -0400
"Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:14:49 -0400
> > "Chris Delahousse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> > 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.
I'm afraid I can't answer any of your questions. When I got my R3240
almost two years ago I tried various 64-bit distros on it. None could
get the video right -- they all dumped me in Vesa 1024 x 768. With each
one I tried and tried to get the video working properly, but had no
luck, in spite of hands-on assistance from several local Linux gurus.
Eventually I tried Ubuntu Hoary amd64. It found the video and
autoconfigured it for 1680 x 1050 and I was in heaven. And everything
else worked as well, except for the Broadcom 4306. I was brand new to
Linux and it took me a week to do it, but I finally got wireless
working with ndiswrapper. I haven't left Ubuntu ever since.
When Breezy came out it broke ndiswrapper and I had to set it up all
over again. This time it took me only a day. And after I got it working
I wrote it up and put it on our wiki so that next time I would have my
own personal documentation. Sure enough, when Dapper came out the
upgrade killed ndiswrapper again. But with Dapper we finally had the
bcm43xx driver. I tried and tried to get it to work, but the
instructions I found in the Ubuuntu forums just wouldn't work.
Eventually I said "screw it" and reinstalled ndiswrapper. This time
reinstalling ndiswrapper took me less than 15 minutes. And again when I
upgraded to Edgy I had to reinstall ndiswrapper once more.
The only thing I use the wireless on this notebook for is when I go to
the university or elsewhere. My home environment is all wired for
ethernet, which is faster and more secure. I have never had a wireless
router and wouldn't know anything about configuring it with the bcm43xx
driver.
I suppose I am going to have to do this all over again in a few days,
as Feisty is scheduled for release this Thursday. It will probably be a
few days late, though, because the release of the beta was three days
late.
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