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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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Read the wiki carefully and it should get you working.
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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.
CSAT
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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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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
Last edited by csat (2010-04-10 12:38:37)
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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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Would you mind tell which notebook brand and router do you have?
Maybe we can find something...
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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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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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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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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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Go to both:
desktop terminal and type: ifconfig
notebook terminal and type: ifconfig
It cannot be the same.
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Go to both:
desktop terminal and type: ifconfig
notebook terminal and type: ifconfigIt 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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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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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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