Yup, you were right... it's the broadcom driver. I got it loaded and I appear to have a link, but I can't get an IP for some reason. Here's what my iwconfig looks like:
eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"unknown"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:EC:E6:A7
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:1/1 Signal level:-48 dBm Noise level:-200 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Have any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
Adam
Richard Esplin wrote:
I thought that the version 4 card no longer used the prism chipset, but instead used the Broadcom chipset. Sorry for the bad news, but last I heard Broadcom Linux support was sketchy at best. I hear that there might be a proprietary driver you can download (it is really just a wrapper for the Windows drivers using wine), but I can't seem to find where to get it, nor have I heard of anyone successfully using a v4 card. I returned mine and found a prism2 card; it seemed easier.
You could blame the crappy hardware vendors who change chipsets and don't warn the consumer, but I prefer to blame the crappier hardware vendors who won't release their specs. Good luck,
Richard Esplin
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:35, Adam Olsen wrote:
Hello,
So my friend was nice enough to get me a wireless card for Christmas (turns out he just wanted me to stop dragging cat5 all over his house when I come over), and surprise, he bought one that works in Linux.... or is supposed to anyway. This thing will not work for me for some reason.
I am using:
Debian sid Linksys WPC11 v4 802.11b wireless pcmcia card
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