i've tried this also, no errors whatsoever during the process but the wireless nic does not appear at all in
neat,
any ideas why Randall ?
worked fine in
ubuntu 7.04
and it shows up in lspci
Quote:01:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
however it seems it's listed in iwconfig so i'll experiment with that...
Quote:[root@localhost ~]# iwconfiglo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
finally got it to work !
I had to do the above PLUS this as root via cli/terminal.
1. tell the wireless manager to connect to a wireless access point called 'wireless_g' with key '7177653935'
Code:
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed essid "wireless_g" key "7177653935"
2. assign an ip address to the wlan0 (wireless device)
*if this doesnt work try point 3 below*
Code:
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.100
3. automatically get an IP from the DHCP server (in this case, the smoothwall linux server behind the access point)
once done the command iwconfig correctly lists the card, and that it's associated and I can ping
www.google.com !
Quote:wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"wireless_g" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:90:4C:7E:00:64
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:7177-6539-35
Link Quality=197/146 Signal level=-219 dBm Noise level=-46 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
ifconfig gives me this
Quote:wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4B:B2:2B:83 inet addr:192.168.0.195 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::290:4bff:feb2:2b83/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1529 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1357860 (1.2 MiB) TX bytes:319985 (312.4 KiB)
and the results from dhclient are here
Quote:[root@localhost ~]# dhclientInternet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.5-RedHat
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit [/url][url=http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/]http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
/sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for wmaster0 not found. Continuing with defaults.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions: line 78: wmaster0: No such file or directory
/sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for wlan0 not found. Continuing with defaults.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions: line 78: wlan0: No such file or directory
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wmaster0/
Sending on LPF/wmaster0/
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0b:db:5b:25:48
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0b:db:5b:25:48
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:b2:2b:83
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:b2:2b:83
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wmaster0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
/sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for wlan0 not found. Continuing with defaults.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions: line 78: wlan0: No such file or directory
bound to 192.168.0.195 -- renewal in 1597 seconds.
i initially tried to manually assign an ip to the wlan0 and while that allowed me to ping the firewall/dhcp server (smoothwall on 192.168.0.1) I couldnt ping anything outside of that namely the internet. Adding a nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf didn't help either, only dhclient got me working. !
Code:
echo "nameserver 192.168.0.1" > /etc/resolv.conf
I hope this helps someone with the same problem
cheers
anyweb
The instructions here got it working for me
lsmod |grep bcm
bcm43xx_mac80211 400289 0
ssb 34757 1 bcm43xx_mac80211
mac80211 147017 2 rc80211_simple,bcm43xx_mac80211
uname -a
Linux laptop 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 #1 SMP Fri Jul 27 18:10:34 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
However, internet is SLOW because I am only getting 1mb/s because of this driver! How can I not go back to ndiswrapper???
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s from iwconfig
Randall's and anyweb's instructions work for me (Fedora 7, 2.6.22-1-41.fc7, new Dell Latitude D520 with the BCM4311/BCM2050 chipset)... BUT it is painfully slow... worse than dial-up.
I saw some rumors elsewhere that there are problems prior to 2.6.22rc4 (
http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43x...04859.html).
Any thoughts? Sounds like I'm not the only one with speed problems.