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#1 2011-06-30 13:00:48

seal20
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Registered: 2010-02-13
Posts: 36

broadcom wireless chipset and no more ndiswrapper

Hi everybody,

After some problems I could made my wireless card work by using ndiswrapper (cf post 117105 )

But recently ndiswrapper was removed from the repositories... I don't want to reopen this subject, enough have been told on it. However it seems that my card should be supported by the b43legacy driver but it doesn't work. I could install the ndiswrapper from AUR but i would prefer to use the kernel module.

So here is the problem I have with b43legacy. I can see the different wireless networks but when connected it fails on authentication.
Dmesg shows

 [10252.685714] b43legacy-phy2: Loading firmware version 0x127, patch level 14 (2005-04-18 02:36:27)
[10252.789223] Registered led device: b43legacy-phy2::tx
[10252.790395] Registered led device: b43legacy-phy2::rx
[10252.790504] Registered led device: b43legacy-phy2::radio
[10252.823052] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[10255.076301] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 (try 1/3)
[10255.275707] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 (try 2/3)
[10255.475713] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 (try 3/3)
[10255.675708] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 timed out
[10266.545993] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 (try 1/3)
[10266.745707] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 (try 2/3)
[10266.945706] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 (try 3/3)
[10267.145713] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 timed out
[10267.419045] b43legacy-phy2 ERROR: MAC suspend failed
[10278.005961] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 (try 1/3)
[10278.205716] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 (try 2/3)
[10278.405955] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 (try 3/3)
[10278.605715] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 timed out
[10283.305718] b43legacy-phy2 ERROR: MAC suspend failed
[10289.479066] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 (try 1/3)
[10289.679055] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 (try 2/3)
[10289.879054] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 (try 3/3)
[10290.079050] wlan0: direct probe to 5a:e6:76:58:4e:47 timed out

I tried to extract the firmware manually, using b43-fwcutter, and to use the one in AUR but always got the same results.
I didn't try yet without protection (now I am trying with WEP and WPA) because other people are using the network now and even if it is work without protection it will not be an acceptable solution.

Can someone help me on this?

Thanks

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#2 2011-07-29 03:30:35

seal20
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Registered: 2010-02-13
Posts: 36

Re: broadcom wireless chipset and no more ndiswrapper

Didn't find the solution so installed the ndiswrapper from AUR. Too bad as my card is said to be supported...

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