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Hello. First of all sorry for posting this, because I'm quite sure that it has been asked before. For some weird reason, everytime I use the forum search engine, I get an 500 error.
I'm having troubles to configure my wireless card on my Dell Vostro V13. The wireless card is present on the interfaces list, but I can't put it up.
I installed wicd following wiki steps, but without any luck.
iwconfig wlan0:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
ifconfig -a:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:6C:10:9C:93
inet addr:192.168.77.108 Bcast:192.168.77.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:68428 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:41438 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:99765655 (95.1 Mb) TX bytes:3044573 (2.9 Mb)
Interrupt:41 Base address:0x8000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:756 (756.0 b) TX bytes:756 (756.0 b)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 70:F1:A1:2D:D8:41
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
lspci -vnn | grep 14e4:
09:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
I read the wiki entrance for Broadcom Wireless cards, but I'm not sure whether I must use broadcom-wl driver or not.
Any thoughts?
Thank you and sorry for my lousy English :X
Sorry for my English. Feel free to point out my errors.
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Assuming you're using the kernel b43 driver... did you install the firmware? There's a b43-firmware package in AUR.
If that won't work, then the wl driver is an alternative.
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Assuming you're using the kernel b43 driver... did you install the firmware? There's a b43-firmware package in AUR.
If that won't work, then the wl driver is an alternative.
Gusar,
The wiki says "brcm80211
The brcm80211 driver is included in the kernel since 2.6.37. No further action is necessary on the part of the user."
...so I didn't installed anything besides wicd.
Sorry for my English. Feel free to point out my errors.
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'brcm80211' is not for your card. 'b43' is, or 'wl'. Install the firmware. If it still doesn't work, post the output of dmesg, maybe it'll give some clue. If not, then go with 'wl'.
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Thanks for your help.
broadcom-wl driver worked... well, kinda worked.
I can list available wireless networks, but none on them give me an IP address (of course I have WEP/WPA passwords for them).
Sorry for my English. Feel free to point out my errors.
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