Not able to connect WPA-PSK TKIP

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#1

Hi all,

I read several posts, and tried diff things but I can’t seem to get my wl working.

I have the following:

0:300.0 Network Controller: Broadcomm Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-pci (rev 01)
0:300.0 0280: 14e4:4311 (rev 01)

My OpenSUSE 11.0 recognizes the device, but does not seem to start it up…
/usr/sbin/iwlist scan does not show up any networks, it gives the following :

wlan0 Interface doesn’t support scanning : Network is down

On my laptop, the Network Manager and wpa_supplicant packages are installed. But when I try to edit the wpa_supplicant_wlan0.conf file, it “recovers” itself so no config is done… I tried to edit the file because I found a text on this forum that could be used with WPA2 and TKIP, so I wanted to try this, but the system would overwrite the settings after restart of the network services.

Can anyone help me on this?

WLAN settings:
WLAN: WPA-PSK
ENCR: TKIP
Passphrase: …
No MAC security.
DHCP address.

Thanx in advance!

Kind Regards,

Jeroen

#2

did you install the firmware for the device ? have a look at the stickies at the start of the wireless section, some good info there.

Andy
p.s. moved to wireless section

#3

Well… I found the following lines using dmesg | less:

b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm ‘pid’
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded Features: PMLR, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]

Thought this was ok… sry I did not mentioned it in the first post…

Kind Regards,

Jeroen

#4

jsvandehoef wrote:
> Well… I found the following lines using dmesg | less:
>
> b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found
> phy0: Selected rate control algorithm ‘pid’
> Broadcom 43xx driver loaded Features: PMLR, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
>
> Thought this was ok… sry I did not mentioned it in the first post…

What does the command ‘sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan’ show?

#5

Hi,

The command shows the same as before:

wlan0 Interface doesn’t support scanning : Network is down

See screenshot for more details:

http://www.margoluberti.nl/screenshot.jpg

Thanx in advance for the help!

#6

Btw… more info about the problem:

I am using OpenSUSE 11.0 X64 on an AMD TurionX2 64 bit.
HP Pavilion dv6000 (dv6137eu) laptop.

Maybe this helps?

#7

have you restarted the system after installing the device and setting up the drivers? I was having a problem until I followed the last piece of advice here (step 6) Well in saying that I was actually able to scan… so I suggest trying to post all the stuff from the steps as outlined in that thread :slight_smile:

#8

I did not install drivers, the SUSE installation automatically detected the device. But I restarted the laptop several times, but with no result.