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Shazzam6999

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From: New York, NY

Registered: 2010-05-11

Posts: 27

Broadcom wireless

Okay, I've been having a lot of trouble with my trouble configuring wireless. I'm using a broadcom 4312 and I can scan netoworks, and seemingly connect to them, but I still cannot connect to the internet. I have the same exact issue in Ubuntu 10.04 so I kind of gave up and wrote it off as beyond my control. Yesterday though, I saw somebody with the same wireless card mention that wireless in Crunchbang worked out of the box for them so I decided to try a livecd of Crunchbang, and lo and behold it works out of the box; so I'm sure now that I can get wireless working, I'm just not sure how to go about doing it.

In Crunchbang I'm using the broadcom-sta driver; however, the broadcom-sta driver didn't work in Ubuntu;. In Arch I tried using the broadcom-wl driver and the b43-fwcutter driver. I had the most luck with the b43-fwcutter driver where I was able to scan networks and with iwconfig wlan0 essid xxxx key xxxx I could even connect to the networks (this is also as far as I got with Ubuntu). I still couldn't connect to the internet though. Normally, I wouldn't even worry about it but recently I've really had to rely on wireless so I've had to use Crunchbang, and while Crunchbang is a wonderful distro it just is not the same. Does anyone have any ideas on what the problem might be? I've found a lot of people with issues with the drivers and video cards but I've yet to find a working solution.

Just for reference here is my wireless card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g

Last edited by Shazzam6999 (2010-06-07 18:51:33)

archman-cro

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2010-04-04

Posts: 943

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Re: Broadcom wireless

Checked http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312 ?
Tried using netcfg, maybe? I can't connect with iw/ifconfig sometimes either, using bcm4311.

Cheers.

Shazzam6999

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From: New York, NY

Registered: 2010-05-11

Posts: 27

Re: Broadcom wireless

Checked http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312 ?
Tried using netcfg, maybe? I can't connect with iw/ifconfig sometimes either, using bcm4311.

Cheers.

I followed that wiki my first time, I haven't tried using anything besides iw/ifconfig though. Once I get home I'll do a quick install and see if I have any better luck with netcfg. Thanks for the suggestion!

Okay, using netcfg instead of iwconfig worked so thank you so much, this has been driving me crazy!

Last edited by Shazzam6999 (2010-06-07 23:43:41)