On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 13:41 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> > Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> >> In fact, for most mobile applications, NetworkManager is the better tool
> >> anyway.
> >>
> > I've never been able to make it work with the broadcom radio in this lappy.
> > To me NM is terminally broken. YMMV of course.
>
> I have an ipw2200 and an Orinoco and my M does indeed V. But from the
> NM FAQ:
>
> I'm using a Broadcom 4xxx-based card, but NetworkManager won't connect
> to my wireless network. Why?
>
> The Broadcom wireless drivers are under active development and have
> come a long way, but are not quite as mature as others. It's a good
> bet that bcm4xxx problems will be solved in furture kernel versions.
> Until recently, this driver did not support the Shared Key WEP
> authentication mode, still used by many access points. There are also
> reported problems connecting to open networks.
>
> A workaround might be to use the NDISWrapper driver instead of the the
> bcm43xx driver included in the Linux kernel, at least until the kernel
> driver version fixes these bugs.
>
> So YMMV in the future as well, and I'd recommend you keep trying. It's a
> nice tool when it works. Reports I've seen of success with ndiswrapper
> have been mixed.
I have a Broadcom BCM4318 chip in my Acer laptop. With the latest
NetworkManager installed and active I can not get a WiFi connection to
work with a SpeedTouch 716 using WPA-PSK with AES (also not with
ndiswrapper). I can make it work when I stop NetworkManager &
NetworkManagerDispatcher and then do:
# /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth1 \
-c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd
$ sudo wpa_gui
(check if you were authenticated ok)
# ifup eth1
(for this to work you have already configured a wireless device that use
dhcp)
Voila, one working WiFi link. I'm still amazed it works :)
Contents of /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant:
INTERFACES="-ieth1"
DRIVERS="-Dwext"
Contents of /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
eapol_version=1
fast_reauth=1
ap_scan=1
network={
ssid="<name of my wifi box>"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
proto=WPA
pairwise=CCMP
group=CCMP
psk="<my passphrase in plain text without 0x prepended>"
}
This setup works both with the bcm43xx module and ndiswrapper.
Hope this help.
Regards,
Patrick
