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pdunning

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Registered: 2007-11-07

Posts: 31

broadcom-wl driver

Hi,

I have just got a new computer and am trying to set up the wireless. I have a broadcom BCM4312 and the broadcom-wl driver from AUR. Having followed the instructions on the wiki it fails to get a dhcp address from the router, timing out. I have a working ethernet through the same router.

ifconfig says

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:23:4D:D4:CE:99
          inet6 addr: fe80::223:4dff:fed4:ce99/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:302
          TX packets:16 errors:8 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:4016 (3.9 Kb)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc000

iwlist scan says

eth1      Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:04:ED:68:65:98
                    ESSID:"wlan-ap"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Quality:5/5  Signal level:-32 dBm  Noise level:-16 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s

iwconfig says

eth1      IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"wlan-ap"  Nickname:""
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Cell: 96:16:64:8A:43:22
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Managementmode:All packets received
          Link Quality=5/5  Signal level=-57 dBm  Noise level=-92 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

has anyone got any ideas?

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: broadcom-wl driver

See if it works with a static IP.

pdunning

Member

Registered: 2007-11-07

Posts: 31

Re: broadcom-wl driver

no static doesn't work but there's no error message appart from "SIOCADDRT: No such process"

louiswins

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Registered: 2007-12-02

Posts: 6

Re: broadcom-wl driver

I had the same issue, not getting a DHCP address with broadcom-wl. I never did get it to work using dhcpcd, but for some reason it works fine with NetworkManager, so I didn't pursue the issue too much. You might want to try that if you aren't already.

pdunning

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Registered: 2007-11-07

Posts: 31

Re: broadcom-wl driver

thanks, just a pity knetworkmanager needs kde3