Re: New thread, broadcom 802-11 related

Gene Heskett wrote:

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 08:02, Neil Cherry wrote:
[huge snippage]

	[ditto]

[root@diablo SP30676A]# cp bcmw15a.inf gene
cp: cannot stat `bcmw15a.inf': No such file or directory

???, weird, Wait! try this in lowercase BCMWL5A.INF (that's
and "L" not a one.

By golly, you are right! I couldn't spot that diff on the lcd screen. There are entirely too many fonts extant that use the exact same character for both a one and an ell. I got bit on that the first time 15 years ago trying to make a trig library compile from a printout in a magazine that had just dropped the src code printout from an old dmp printer on the camera glass & made offset plates from it. Later, I carved away a piece of the ell on a daisy wheel for the same reason.

I only noticed it because there were 2 lines with the same words
(1 mine, 1 yours) and I noticed the difference.

And that script looks like?

Sorry can't tell you ancient Chinese secret (sorry that's from a
commercial from the 1970's can't remember what they were selling :-)

See the script at the end of the message.

And the blue led in the center of the screen hinge that says the
radio is up just came ON.  Ok, start kwifimanager and it says its
out of range but showing a green bar to the 54mbs line.  I ask it to
scan for networks, it finds mine, but fails to connect due to a bad
WEP key.  I thought I entered that once, but maybe in all the
screwing around it got fubared.  Where is that located?, in the
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcgf-wlan0?  Humm, no, just the
hardware address its supposed to use.

I don't know, I use wpa_supplicant because I needed WPA-PSK.
If it's wpa_supplicant it's under /etc/wpa_supplicant. In the
wpa_supplicant file. It would be something like this:

network={
  ssid="SSID"
  key_mgmt=NONE
  wep_key0="Shared key"
  wep_tx_keyidx=0
  priority=5
}

I think you'll need this for supplicant with WPA-PSK:

network={
  ssid="Third"_SSID
  psk="Third_WPA-PSK"
  key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
  proto=WPA
  priority=5
  bssid=AA:00:04:00:42:B0
}

The MAC address is not a real WAP (at least I don't think they
have a wireless router :-).

Ok, I'll bite, whats WPA-PSK?

Off to the Wiki I go an voila: WPA-PSK = Wi-Fi Protected Access -
Pre-shared key. It's a little better (security wise) than the
WEP is.

And that file, /etc/wpa_suplicant/wpa_suplicant.conf, only contains:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel

network={
        ssid="any"
        key_mgmt=NONE
}

Yipes! Not even WEP. I figure you'll work on that once you've fully
resolved the connectivity issue.

And I have NDI how this is connected to what I'm doing.

Is there a better "wifi" manager program for linux that kwifimanager?

Or has the 128 bit problem alluded to on the wap11 web page 3 years ago now been fixed? I'm having a bit of trouble making sure I point the finger at the right bit of code here.

I don't know, I've never used kwifimanager.

Here's the script I install it in the /etc/init.d/network script just
before the end of the start (before the ;; for start).

# ====================================================================
# Load the ndiswrapper module and start the wpa_spplicant daemon
# ====================================================================

WLAN='wlan0'
ADDRESS='static'
# The IP address of this machine's wirless interface
IP='192.168.2.17'
# Default Gateway address
GATEWAY='192.168.2.254'

# This must match your WAP
SSID='YOUR_SSID_HERE'

# This must match your WAP
CHANNEL='6'

/sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
    echo "Error loading ndiswrapper module"
    exit 1
fi

# SSID goes here
/sbin/iwconfig ${WLAN} essid ${SSID}
# channel number goes here, match your WAP settings
/sbin/iwconfig ${WLAN} channel ${CHANNEL}
/sbin/iwconfig ${WLAN} commit

# This is taken care of in the wpa_supplicant
# iwconfig ${WLAN} key s:key_goes_here
/sbin/ifconfig ${WLAN} up

if [ "${ADDRESS}" == "static" ]; then
  # Static IP address
  /sbin/ifconfig ${WLAN} ${IP}
  sleep 1
  /usr/local/sbin/wpa_supplicant -dd -Dndiswrapper \
    -i${WLAN} -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
  sleep 2
  /sbin/route add default gw ${GATEWAY} ${WLAN}
else
  # Dynamic IP address, only use one of the other
  # untested!
  #dhclient ${WLAN}
  #pump -i ${WLAN}
fi
#echo Done

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