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#1 2011-03-23 15:06:55

rb
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From: Argentina
Registered: 2010-05-07
Posts: 143

Dell Vostro V13 wireless card issue

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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#2 2011-03-23 15:30:05

Gusar
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Registered: 2009-08-25
Posts: 3,605

Re: Dell Vostro V13 wireless card issue

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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#3 2011-03-23 16:01:41

rb
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From: Argentina
Registered: 2010-05-07
Posts: 143

Re: Dell Vostro V13 wireless card issue

Gusar wrote:

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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#4 2011-03-23 16:23:17

Gusar
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Registered: 2009-08-25
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Re: Dell Vostro V13 wireless card issue

'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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#5 2011-03-23 19:22:24

rb
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From: Argentina
Registered: 2010-05-07
Posts: 143

Re: Dell Vostro V13 wireless card issue

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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