Under FC6 I was able to get my laptop (HP zv6015us with a Broadcom 4306 wireless NIC) to work with the bcm43xx driver only if I disabled authentication on my AP. You might give this a *brief* try. That is, set your AP as open and see if you can connect. If you can connect and you're sure that you have the authentication set up correctly on your laptop then it sounds like bcm43xx still doesn't like to authenticate. If you still can't connect, there's always ndiswrapper. I'm currently running the 1.45 version of ndiswrapper with a 2.6.21.3 kernel under CentOS 5 and the connection is very stable. Also, I'm currently running WPA-PSK authentication. Cheers, Dave
Thanks for the reply Dave. I have not tried to open the system, I will though. I have tried the ndiswrapper 1.45 on the stock kernel from the fedora 7 install, it is 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7. I have not been able to get the ndiswrapper to work either, I had it working with 1.27 on opensuse 10.2 which was a 2.6.18 kernel. I have tried both hex and ascii for my key and neither works. I must admit this is the first time I have been able to get the system scanning with the native driver bcm43xx_mac80211. I will post back my results. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org
