Hi,
I’ve set up have installed the wireless driver for my broadcom adaptor (dell mini-9) and it seems to be mostly working. It can see my access point (and lots of others) but it won’t connect.
It seems to forget the WEP key - I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve entered it, only to go back a find it’s gone from the configuration.
I’ve chosen to keep it ‘In secure storage’. If I click on the network icon in the toolbar, then the connection (which shows with a little yellow shield icon next to it), it takes me to ‘secrets for…’ and that seems to remember it until I touch anything in the ‘Manage connections’ dialog - which never seems to show the key.
This is a fresh download of OpenSUSE 11.2 KDE.
# lspci -v
...
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device 04b5
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at f0200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Capabilities: [e8] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 76-a5-63-ff-ff-f5-00-21
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: wl
...
# /usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:24 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Any hints appreciated.[/size]