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Howdie,
Santa brought me one of those lovely Ideapad s10e's for christmas but sadly I can't get wlan working in Arch. The preinstalled SLED used the broadcom-wl driver (which worked), so I was pretty happy an AUR package existed for it. Install worked just fine and my card is also identified but I can't scan for networks nor connect to one I know of.
Here is some output:
$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11 Nickname:""
Access Point: Not-Associated
Before installing broadcom-wl eth1 wasn't listed at all.
When I try to connect to my access point, this happens:
$ sudo iwconfig eth1 essid 'FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN' key 12345
Passwort:
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.
Another strange thing:
$ iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning.
Any ideas? :S
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Just a quick bump here.
After I had some strange errors with my ESSID, I just tried changing it (and some other stuff) and the "SET failed" Error disappeared.
So if I enter
sudo iwconfig eth1 essid lazer key s:whoops
now, no errors are being printed anymore.
Iwconfig still gives me the same and ifconfig prints:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:8B:40:90:48
inet addr:192.168.178.45 Bcast:192.168.178.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::223:8bff:fe40:9048/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2673 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2418 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2026666 (1.9 Mb) TX bytes:376605 (367.7 Kb)
Interrupt:16
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:00:91:47:F2
inet6 addr: fe80::221:ff:fe91:47f2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:130 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:644
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:11936 (11.6 Kb) TX bytes:516 (516.0 b)
Interrupt:18
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:280 (280.0 b) TX bytes:280 (280.0 b)
I also tried to configure it using the network-admin but if I open the network manager after entering the essid etc. it's unconfigured again.
Any specific logs which could help me?
Or any ideas?
Last edited by Ypsy (2008-12-31 14:15:20)
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Another quick bump here.
After installing the new version of broadcom-wl, which was released today, and having no success again I tried installing broadcom's linux driver from hand following the wiki. No success again, same outputs as already posted.
I'm getting depressed! :-(
Will try using ndiswrapper tomorrow but I'm absolutely sure it works using broadcom-wl as there are lots of people who got it to work.
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Take a look at the archlinux wireless page
and also this
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312
do you have the driver wl in lsmod if not load the driver then try iwlist scan again
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@viga: Yes, the driver is loaded. lsmod | grep wl prints:
wl 1074052 0
ieee80211_crypt 6532 2 ieee80211_crypt_tkip,wl
Okay but now something strange happened! After going through the wiki pages again (as viga recommended) and entering every possible command more than twenty thousand times it suddenly worked!
The only thing I added this time the dhcpcd command.
Nevertheless: After rebooting it didn't work anymore, only after entering the command a few thousand times again.
Haven't figured out the exact order the commands need to be used but I'm sure it's not the way you're supposed to do it normally. Will hopefully find it out soon though! Anyways, now it can't be too hard to find a good solution to auto configure it.
Last edited by Ypsy (2009-01-02 04:54:22)
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I use netcfg to start my wireless sudo netcfg "the name of the file containing your configuration"
follow the instructions here: I have the same card and us the wl driver
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles
Good luck
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i had the same problem today... i think if you push the wifi button, the module has problems with that. so after you pushed the button just reload the module with "modprobe -r wl; modprobe wl"
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