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#1 2010-01-22 02:18:56

Nullw0rm
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Registered: 2010-01-21
Posts: 16

Help! WiFi not working on my inspiron 1525 (broadcom)

I have a rough idea of what to do, as I've (through hours) got it sorta working on other distros a long time ago, but I can't get it working on Arch Linux..

lspci returns:

0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

Why the 0b:00.0? Dunno.

I installed the B43 drivers that supposedly worked and blacklisted -ssb..

MODULES=(lib80211 !b43 !ssb !snd_intel8x0m)

And it seems to find my card! It's eth1 instead of wlan0 and appears as this with iwconfig:

eth1      IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:""  Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=4/5  Signal level=-60 dBm  Noise level=-91 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:2  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I turned power management off as mentioned once but it seems I can't connect to anything.... trying iwconfig essid "KPCE" key 0000000000

makes it appear as this..

eth1      IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"KPCE9000"  Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:18:D1:88:A0:91

But it won't connect with my ethernet cable plugged out! .. Am I missing something? I installed NDISWRAPPER just now with the Windows driver and it looks better, but outputs the same sorta thing.

(The key is in hex, will "key 0000000000" work? ,maybe it's that stupid thing) sad ..

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#2 2010-01-22 04:38:07

Nullw0rm
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Registered: 2010-01-21
Posts: 16

Re: Help! WiFi not working on my inspiron 1525 (broadcom)

Nevermind, I solved it by using ndiswrapper on an old USB network card, it works! My sanity is saved!

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#3 2010-01-22 05:57:50

n0dix
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Registered: 2009-09-22
Posts: 956

Re: Help! WiFi not working on my inspiron 1525 (broadcom)

Add the SOLVED tag to the title.

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#4 2010-01-22 14:48:20

elric
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Registered: 2010-01-14
Posts: 22

Re: Help! WiFi not working on my inspiron 1525 (broadcom)

I have the same card. broadcom-wl driver (AUR) works great, faster, and more reliable than b43 or ndiswrapper.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312 shows the instructions.

If you configure the interface with iwconfig, make sure to use appropriately either "key" os "key s:"

Last edited by elric (2010-01-22 14:49:42)

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