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#1 2010-04-10 00:45:05

dozerismydogsname
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Dell Inspirion wireless problem

I'm having a problem connecting to my wireless network. I have installed the drivfers that i needed:

Broadcom Corporation BCM4312

I can see wireless networks just fine, however the problem occurs when i try to access my wireless network. My network is protected by a wep key, and whenever i try to insert it just constantly goes back to the wireless network authentication screen. I've tried every single choice: wep 40/128 bit, wep 128 passkey, dynamic 802.1x wep. Nothing works however

I'm using gnome, and using networkmanager. Can anyone help me with this problem?

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#2 2010-04-10 02:21:22

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Re: Dell Inspirion wireless problem

Read the wiki carefully and it should get you working.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless

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#3 2010-04-10 02:58:20

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Re: Dell Inspirion wireless problem

If you are using the latest kernel try going direct to the link below and use b43 procedure:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup#b43

If you have problems with the command make just install the package base-devel using pacman.


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#4 2010-04-10 12:14:37

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Re: Dell Inspirion wireless problem

csat wrote:

If you are using the latest kernel try going direct to the link below and use b43 procedure:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup#b43

If you have problems with the command make just install the package base-devel using pacman.

I'm using the wiki page:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312

Is that the problem?

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#5 2010-04-10 12:29:17

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Re: Dell Inspirion wireless problem

Well, I don't know where the problem is.  I have the same Broadcom hardware BCM4312 and I was using AUR broadcom-wl until few days ago when I was warned that I should use b43 because of possible problems with new kernel.  I gave it a try and worked very well, including to another notebook Dell with the same wireless hardware.  I am using ArchBang 2 RC2, by the way.

Edited:  Check this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=94730

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#6 2010-04-10 19:31:21

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Re: Dell Inspirion wireless problem

csat wrote:

Well, I don't know where the problem is.  I have the same Broadcom hardware BCM4312 and I was using AUR broadcom-wl until few days ago when I was warned that I should use b43 because of possible problems with new kernel.  I gave it a try and worked very well, including to another notebook Dell with the same wireless hardware.  I am using ArchBang 2 RC2, by the way.

Edited:  Check this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=94730

Yea that was the way i tried first aswell, however it didn't seem to work for me.

As for the original topic, i got wireless working extremely well in the morning; my laptop was connected to my router just fine.  I went out, and had to use my laptop elsewhere; in doing so i connected to another network. Now my laptop can't seem to connect to my network at all. I know it's not a network problem, because other laptops in my house can connect to the wireless just fine.

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#7 2010-04-10 19:50:41

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Re: Dell Inspirion wireless problem

Would you mind tell which notebook brand and router do you have?
Maybe we can find something...


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#8 2010-04-10 22:36:28

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Re: Dell Inspirion wireless problem

csat wrote:

Would you mind tell which notebook brand and router do you have?
Maybe we can find something...

I'm using an inspiron 1546 (heh i noticed that i misspelled inspiron in the thread title) and i'm using a actiontec mi424wr.

Last edited by dozerismydogsname (2010-04-10 22:38:15)

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#9 2010-04-12 22:11:24

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Re: Dell Inspirion wireless problem

Anyways i'm having the same problem with the laptop that i do now. I thought it might have been a problem with the way i installed arch, so i reformatted. For the time being wireless seemed to be working fine. However when i rebooted, my wireless connection keep on telling me to authenticate. What am i doing that is causing this error?

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#10 2010-04-12 22:16:38

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Re: Dell Inspirion wireless problem

Hummm it happened once here.  I can't remember which program is called when the network starts but you can find out.  When this program asks you for authentication just open another terminal and type ps -alx so that it will show you which program was loaded at the last time.  Then, using your root account call this program and fill the information about your wireless.  I think this way the program will record all stuff and will work after rebooting.


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#11 2010-04-12 23:46:46

dozerismydogsname
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Re: Dell Inspirion wireless problem

Awesome i think i figured out what the problem with my wireless is. I think that my ip is conflicting with the ip of my desktop; this is strange because my router is set to dhcp, and should generally hand out the right ip. I tried manually configuring my ip address, and it wasn't working well either. Any solutions?

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#12 2010-04-13 00:08:42

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Re: Dell Inspirion wireless problem

Go to both:

desktop terminal and type:  ifconfig
notebook terminal and type: ifconfig

It cannot be the same.


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#13 2010-04-13 00:27:39

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Re: Dell Inspirion wireless problem

csat wrote:

Go to both:

desktop terminal and type:  ifconfig
notebook terminal and type: ifconfig

It cannot be the same.

heh, you were right. For some reason however, if i turn off my desktop (also running arch); sometimes wireless seems to work on my laptop. But anyways it's back to not working again, do i need to do anything to the configuration? Or am i missing/messing up something when i am installing my drivers?

I'm using the b43-firmware-newest from the aur.

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#14 2010-04-13 00:35:06

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Re: Dell Inspirion wireless problem

How do you access your router interface in order to configure all stuff, including wireless?  Is it set to wep, wpa, wpa2?  Is there a hidden SSID?


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#15 2010-04-13 01:38:12

dozerismydogsname
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Re: Dell Inspirion wireless problem

csat wrote:

How do you access your router interface in order to configure all stuff, including wireless?  Is it set to wep, wpa, wpa2?  Is there a hidden SSID?

My router uses wep, and i made sure everything was configured similar (if not exact), to the settings in my router.

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