Dear all,
thanks for any advice in advance. I’ve been trying to get a linksys wireless pci card to work but have been having some weird problems. Below is a breakdown of all commands I’ve done to help diagnose the problem. It appears that the firmware is present but I still can’t scan for available networks.
Command: /sbin/lspci
Result:
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
Command: dmesg | grep found
Result:
b43-phys0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [features: PMLR, Firmware-ID: FW13]
Command: /usr/sbin/iwconfig
Result:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management:off
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
Command: sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
Result:
wlan0 Interface doesn’t support scanning : Network is down
Wireless device kernel:ssd
Operating system: Latest version of suse
I’ve also followed the instructions to fix SPROM programming error for BCM4306/3 with no success. (link for this post is below). One thing this post doesn’t mention is what to do if the last digit of the low-order broadflags is a letter. I had a ‘D’ at the end and changed it to the number 8, please let me know if this has to be reverted.
Regards,
Seb
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