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katzen

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From: London

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 88

broadcom and wpa_supplicant

Hi,
I've installed archlinux on my macbook pro. Sadly, I've got a broadcom wireless card, and no wired connection available.
I compiled the wl module after downloading it from the broadcom website ( http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/ … 9.3.tar.gz ) and it seems to work, iwconfig list a wireless controller and I can scan for networks with iwlist.
The problem is that my connection is protected with WPA2, and I can't run wpa_supplicant.
I edited wpa_supplicant.conf following the wiki page ( http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WPA_Supplicant ):

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=network
update_config=1

But when i try to start it with

# wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B

it says something about not finding devices and

Could not get interface 'wl' flags
Could not configure driver to use managed mode
Failed to disable WPA in the driver.

I'm stuck, and it's really annoying to try to fix something on a machine without a network..
Thanks in advance