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Hi guys I'm experiencing a weird problem with my laptop wireless card, a Broadcom 4313. I have installed the broadcom-wl driver as suggested in the Wiki and everything went smoothly during the installation, I can properly load the module with modprobe
[marco@zonzock ~]$ lsmod | grep wl
wl 1944193 0
lib80211 3966 2 wl,lib80211_crypt_tkip
And checking the system log for any possible kernel error (with dmesg) I get:
wl 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
wl 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'
eth1: Broadcom BCM4727 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 5.60.48.36
So everything seems fine, in fact if I try a sudo iwconfig I get:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:8 Mb/s Tx-Power:24 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
And now the weird thing, I can't choose any ESSID!!Look at this:
[marco@zonzock ~]$ sudo iwconfig eth1 essid test
[marco@zonzock ~]$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:8 Mb/s Tx-Power:24 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
So I can't do anything...I'm stuck there, and I couldn't solve my problem even googleing around.
Just to do some further test I have tried to change the power management mode (if you look before is set to off and as you can see below I can change the mode without problems so in some way the driver is partially working
[marco@zonzock ~]$ sudo iwconfig eth1 power on
[marco@zonzock ~]$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:8 Mb/s Tx-Power:24 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
What can I do to solve this problem?On windows 7 I can connect without problems, the laptop is new and I'm a but frustrated now..I'm not using my NVIDIA hybrid graphic card since linux support isn't provided, I wouldn't like having other problems with the wireless too...
I am sorry for the long post but I wanted to give you as many informations as I can on this problem!Thanks a lot
Last edited by Demind (2010-08-29 23:35:35)
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The Broadcom driver is buggy and incomplete, you might not see the essid in ifwconfig output but it does associate. Here is my current output while i'm browsing the forums:
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11 Nickname:""
Access Point: Not-Associated
Link Quality:5 Signal level:202 Noise level:165
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
(i've mapped eth1 to wlan0)
What is you actual problem? Are you using any kind of networkmanager?
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The Broadcom driver is buggy and incomplete, you might not see the essid in ifwconfig output but it does associate. Here is my current output while i'm browsing the forums:
You are right, it's buggy and incomplete...:(
lo no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11 Nickname:"" Access Point: Not-Associated Link Quality:5 Signal level:202 Noise level:165 Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0 eth0 no wireless extensions.
You need to be root to see your essid, if you are not root the driver does not show you all the informations...this is a problem i.e. for programs like conky.
(i've mapped eth1 to wlan0)
What is you actual problem? Are you using any kind of networkmanager?
I've solved this problem one hour ago...using other boards I could set any essid I wanted even if I didn't set any keys, with this driver in order to set the essid I need to set the key before...just for the record network manager works far better than wicd when using this driver
Thanks for your answer!
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You need to be root to see your essid, if you are not root the driver does not show you all the informations...this is a problem i.e. for programs like conky.
You're right, good one..
I've solved this problem one hour ago...using other boards I could set any essid I wanted even if I didn't set any keys, with this driver in order to set the essid I need to set the key before...just for the record network manager works far better than wicd when using this driver
Good to hear, please mark your topic solved.
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