No WPA or WPA2 on Dell Broadcom card with ndiswrapper

[greginchina]

Hi Everyone,

Total linux newbie here.

I finally got my Dell Broadcom wireless card working on OpenSUSE 11 with ndiswrapper after much fiddling.

I'm using a Linksys Draft-N router (I can't check the model number as I'm not currently at home - will add it later if relevant).

The Network Manager can see the network but when I try to connect using WPA or WPA2 it just eventually times out and I have to try again. No matter how many times I try it will not connect.

I have changed the router's security settings to use WEP and it works ok. However I would really like to go back to using WPA2 if possible.

Any ideas why this is not working and what I would need to do to make it work?

Thanks,

Greg.

[innovamanager]

Hi...

I can advice 2 things... first try enabling dell repository to get your card working with other driver... ndiswrapper not always is the best choice...
I have a compaq laptop and i use b43 driver for my broadcom card and it works ok

second try configuring your card with yast... there you can set your password and indicates if it its wpa-psk or whatever... i use wap-psk...

to enable dell repository see opensuse DELL

[cjcox]

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 05:16 +0000, greginchina wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Total linux newbie here.
>
> I finally got my Dell Broadcom wireless card working on OpenSUSE 11
> with ndiswrapper after much fiddling.
>
> I'm using a Linksys Draft-N router (I can't check the model number as
> I'm not currently at home - will add it later if relevant).
>
> The Network Manager can see the network but when I try to connect using
> WPA or WPA2 it just eventually times out and I have to try again. No
> matter how many times I try it will not connect.

I had trouble getting WPA to work too.. but on the older Dell 1390.
I switch to the native bcm driver... with a twist, I hand to right
a pre-up script to jam in my ESSID.

>
> I have changed the router's security settings to use WEP and it works
> ok. However I would really like to go back to using WPA2 if possible.
>
> Any ideas why this is not working and what I would need to do to make
> it work?

I haven't tried the newer Dell... don't know how well the native
driver supports it.

I need to write a wiki post about the ESSID problem... My
D630 works find today using the native driver with WPA (with
my ESSID workaround/fix).

[beli0135]

Actually, it's not about the driver, but up to wpa_supplicant that somehow is difficult on colaboration.
Read more about it's configuration, and with a little push-pull, you can make it work.

[cjcox]

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 12:26 +0000, beli0135 wrote:
> Actually, it's not about the driver, but up to wpa_supplicant that
> somehow is difficult on colaboration.
> Read more about it's configuration, and with a little push-pull, you
> can make it work.

Hmmm ok.. but I'm not motivated anymore now that I no longer
need to use ndiswrapper.

[karlsao]

Originally Posted by greginchina

Hi Everyone,

Total linux newbie here.

I finally got my Dell Broadcom wireless card working on OpenSUSE 11 with ndiswrapper after much fiddling.

I'm using a Linksys Draft-N router (I can't check the model number as I'm not currently at home - will add it later if relevant).

The Network Manager can see the network but when I try to connect using WPA or WPA2 it just eventually times out and I have to try again. No matter how many times I try it will not connect.

I have changed the router's security settings to use WEP and it works ok. However I would really like to go back to using WPA2 if possible.

Any ideas why this is not working and what I would need to do to make it work?

Thanks,

Greg.

Hi Greg,

Have you made your wireless card working with WPA-PSK?

Any tip?