Networking - Broadcom wireless troubles Bill - 29.12.2006, 03:06 Uhr Titel: Broadcom wireless troubles
Broadcomm BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] installed ndiswrapper using driver from winwows xp this
Compaq Presario laptop. Router shows some packets when getting lease but never connects.
D-Link Router Setup
ssid = jenn
channel = 1
Authentication = Open System
WEP = enabled
wep encryption = 128 bit
key type = Hex
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(, ifdown(
# The loopback interface
# automatically added when upgrading
auto lo eth0 eth1
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0
root@Blaze:~# ifup eth1
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:ec:80:c7
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:14:a5:ec:80:c7
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
SIOCADDRT: File exists
bound to 192.168.0.102 -- renewal in 302400 seconds.
root@Blaze:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management: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
mdmarmer - 29.12.2006, 03:42 Uhr Titel:
There is a native driver bcm43xx kernel module which conflicts with ndisdwrapper driver.
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If you use ndiswrapper, you need to blacklist the native driver
blacklist the native driver by adding
#broadcom native driver
blacklist bcm43xx
to the bottom of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
-- edit this file as root
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(native driver works quite well with kanotix kernel -- if you want to use it, make sure you have bcm43xx-fwcutter installed, and run bcm43xx-fwcutter against your Windows .sys file (Broadcvom firmware) -- then you'll need to remove your driver from ndiswrapper, or blacklist ndiswrapper)
(You can search for more info on Broadcom drivers if you need it or are interested)
Mike
Bill - 29.12.2006, 04:00 Uhr Titel:
I blacklisted that driver already.
Thanks Bill
Bill - 30.12.2006, 04:24 Uhr Titel:
Got it fixed using ndiswrapper although it probably could work with other driver. Googled around
and found a site that said for WEP 64 bit is default, so I changed to 64 bit and shared key.
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(, ifdown(
# The loopback interface
# automatically added when upgrading
auto lo eth1
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0