First of all thanks for the great work done on this wonderfull system !
I have been using SuSE since version 9, and this 11.0 with new KDE is very good.
But now to the problems with this Broadcom-device which is in my old HP Pavilion zv5000EA. In 10.2 I was able to use ndiswrapper, but in 10.3 it was not stable.
Now in 11.0 I would give the bcm43-driver a try. I read and followed the instruction in linuxwireless.org and found I should use:
b43legacy-driver,
firmware 3.130.20.0
b43-fwcutter v.011
I copy/paste all the commands from the site and intallation went ok, but the device will not connect. Tried with/without encrypt WPA_PSK on the router, tried Knetworkconnect and ifup, and always getting nearly the same output:
uname -a:
Linux linux-l1bn 2.6.25.4-8-pae #1 SMP 2008-05-26 15:23:05 +0200 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
lspci |grep BCM:
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4303 802.11b Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
iwconfig wlan0:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Greven"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:0C:84:01:69:38
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr
ff Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key
ff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
iwlist wlan0 scan:
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0C:84:01:69:38
ESSID:"Greven"
Mode:Master
Channel:9
Frequency:2.452 GHz (Channel 9)
Quality=56/100 Signal level=-54 dBm Noise level=-47 dBm
Encryption key
n
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=00000013ad15c256
dmesg | grep b43:
b43legacy-phy0: Broadcom 4301 WLAN found
input: b43legacy-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input8
b43legacy-phy0: Loading firmware version 0x127, patch level 14 (2005-04-18 02:36:27)
Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0:tx
Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0:rx
Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0:radio
b43legacy-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED
input: b43legacy-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input10
b43legacy-phy0: Loading firmware version 0x127, patch level 14 (2005-04-18 02:36:27)
Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0:tx
Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0:rx
Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0:radio
b43legacy-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED
cat /var/log/messages |grep "b43legacy-phy0" |tail:
Jun 20 09:13:14 linux-l1bn klogd: Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0:tx
Jun 20 09:13:14 linux-l1bn klogd: Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0:rx
Jun 20 09:13:14 linux-l1bn klogd: Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0:radio
Jun 20 09:13:14 linux-l1bn klogd: b43legacy-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED
Jun 20 09:16:51 linux-l1bn klogd: input: b43legacy-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input10
Jun 20 09:16:51 linux-l1bn klogd: b43legacy-phy0: Loading firmware version 0x127, patch level 14 (2005-04-18 02:36:27)
Jun 20 09:16:51 linux-l1bn klogd: Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0:tx
Jun 20 09:16:51 linux-l1bn klogd: Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0:rx
Jun 20 09:16:51 linux-l1bn klogd: Registered led device: b43legacy-phy0:radio
Jun 20 09:16:52 linux-l1bn klogd: b43legacy-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED
cat /var/log/messages |grep "wlan0" |tail:
Jun 20 09:24:13 linux-l1bn klogd: wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
Jun 20 09:24:13 linux-l1bn klogd: wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0c:84:01:69:38
Jun 20 09:24:13 linux-l1bn klogd: wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
Jun 20 09:24:13 linux-l1bn klogd: wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0c:84:01:69:38
Jun 20 09:24:14 linux-l1bn klogd: wlan0: authentication with AP 00:0c:84:01:69:38 timed out
Jun 20 09:24:29 linux-l1bn klogd: wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
Jun 20 09:24:29 linux-l1bn klogd: wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0c:84:01:69:38
Jun 20 09:24:29 linux-l1bn klogd: wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
Jun 20 09:24:29 linux-l1bn klogd: wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:0c:84:01:69:38
Jun 20 09:24:30 linux-l1bn klogd: wlan0: authentication with AP 00:0c:84:01:69:38 timed out
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Should I try ndiswrapper because of this old 4301/03-device?
Jan