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john.magnus

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Registered: 2011-04-10

Posts: 3

brcm80211 - can see, no connect

From Wiki:

brcm80211

The brcm80211 driver is included in the kernel since 2.6.37. No further action is necessary on the part of the user.

So ... I have KDE, networkmanager and it works. Sort of. Connecting wired even mobile is ok, but not wireless; I can see the networks, but connecting? No, Sir! Same behavior for wep or wpa or even open.

What to do?

As wiki says, no further action has been taken -- no modules specifically mentioned in rc.conf etc -- just plain stock (with autoload dbus networkmanager and kdm for kde)

whatshisname

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Registered: 2010-04-24

Posts: 163

Re: brcm80211 - can see, no connect

Try not using network-manager:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107609

Also, try connecting via the command line.  These commands usually work for me.  Assuming the wireless is eth1.  Yours may be wlan0:

ifconfig eth1 up
iwconfig eth1 essid YourEssid
dhclient eth1

If dhclient doesn't work, try dhcpcd.