Wirelesscard Lights up, Can see SSID but still does not connect

English Network/Internet
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I have a supported BCM4318 “EDUP” wireless card. I am very, very new to opensuse, 2 days old to be exact. However I can read, so I followed the instructions listed in the “Getting Your Wireless to Work” with no avail. It is really weird. I am using the network manager. When I right click on the tiny blue wireless bar down below I see both my network and my neighbors. I click on mine and it asks for my WEP key, I enter it and when I mouse over the icon it sayS that it is obtaining network address. If I click on it at this point it says activating. Then it says waiting for authorization. I have used the fwcutter to download the latest firmware. I have even used ndiswrapper to install from the Edup driver cd. No good!

The other thing is, that I am running Ubuntu 9 on the same machine on the same network with the same card and it works.

Thanks for the help in advanced!:slight_smile:

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Have a look at /var/log/NetworkManager for any errors.

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On 07/02/2010 05:56 PM, leviduncan1 wrote:
>
> I have a supported BCM4318 “EDUP” wireless card. I am very, very new to
> opensuse, 2 days old to be exact. However I can read, so I followed the
> instructions listed in the “Getting Your Wireless to Work” with no
> avail. It is really weird. I am using the network manager. When I right
> click on the tiny blue wireless bar down below I see both my network and
> my neighbors. I click on mine and it asks for my WEP key, I enter it and
> when I mouse over the icon it sayS that it is obtaining network address.
> If I click on it at this point it says activating. Then it says waiting
> for authorization. I have used the fwcutter to download the latest
> firmware. I have even used ndiswrapper to install from the Edup driver
> cd. No good!
>
> The other thing is, that I am running Ubuntu 9 on the same machine on
> the same network with the same card and it works.

Please post the output of the following commande:


sudo  /usr/sbin/iwconfig
dmesg | egrep "ssb|b43|wlan"
ps  ax  | grep supplicant

I am assuming that you used the WEP key, and not a pass phrase; however,
the symptoms you describe are very nearly what one would expect if the key
were wrong.

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Duh! Didn’t have to type in the code. After reading your comment it immediately dawned on me. I was using Passphrase instead of Hex or Ascii Key. That’s why you guys are the best. I am able to connect now. God Bless!