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Fedora 7 and Broadcom 43xx WI-FI drivers - anyweb - 2007-06-28
i've tried this also, no errors whatsoever during the process but the wireless nic does not appear at all in neat,
any ideas why Randall ?
worked fine in ubuntu 7.04
and it shows up in lspci
Quote:01:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
however it seems it's listed in iwconfig so i'll experiment with that...
Quote:[root@localhost ~]# iwconfiglo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key: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
Fedora 7 and Broadcom 43xx WI-FI drivers - anyweb - 2007-07-18
finally got it to work !
I had to do the above PLUS this as root via cli/terminal.
1. tell the wireless manager to connect to a wireless access point called 'wireless_g' with key '7177653935'
Code:
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed essid "wireless_g" key "7177653935"2. assign an ip address to the wlan0 (wireless device) *if this doesnt work try point 3 below*
Code:
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.1003. automatically get an IP from the DHCP server (in this case, the smoothwall linux server behind the access point)
Code:
dhclientonce done the command iwconfig correctly lists the card, and that it's associated and I can ping www.google.com !
Quote:wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"wireless_g" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:90:4C:7E:00:64
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:7177-6539-35
Link Quality=197/146 Signal level=-219 dBm Noise level=-46 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
ifconfig gives me this
Quote:wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4B:B2:2B:83 inet addr:192.168.0.195 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::290:4bff:feb2:2b83/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1529 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1357860 (1.2 MiB) TX bytes:319985 (312.4 KiB)
and the results from dhclient are here
Quote:[root@localhost ~]# dhclientInternet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.5-RedHat
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit [/url][url=http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/]http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
/sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for wmaster0 not found. Continuing with defaults.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions: line 78: wmaster0: No such file or directory
/sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for wlan0 not found. Continuing with defaults.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions: line 78: wlan0: No such file or directory
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wmaster0/
Sending on LPF/wmaster0/
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0b:db:5b:25:48
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0b:db:5b:25:48
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:b2:2b:83
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:b2:2b:83
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wmaster0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
/sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for wlan0 not found. Continuing with defaults.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions: line 78: wlan0: No such file or directory
bound to 192.168.0.195 -- renewal in 1597 seconds.
i initially tried to manually assign an ip to the wlan0 and while that allowed me to ping the firewall/dhcp server (smoothwall on 192.168.0.1) I couldnt ping anything outside of that namely the internet. Adding a nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf didn't help either, only dhclient got me working. !
Code:
echo "nameserver 192.168.0.1" > /etc/resolv.confI hope this helps someone with the same problem
cheers
anyweb
Fedora 7 and Broadcom 43xx WI-FI drivers - john h - 2007-08-02
The instructions here got it working for me
lsmod |grep bcm
bcm43xx_mac80211 400289 0
ssb 34757 1 bcm43xx_mac80211
mac80211 147017 2 rc80211_simple,bcm43xx_mac80211
uname -a
Linux laptop 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 #1 SMP Fri Jul 27 18:10:34 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
However, internet is SLOW because I am only getting 1mb/s because of this driver! How can I not go back to ndiswrapper???
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s from iwconfig
Fedora 7 and Broadcom 43xx WI-FI drivers - Charles Roth - 2007-08-03
Randall's and anyweb's instructions work for me (Fedora 7, 2.6.22-1-41.fc7, new Dell Latitude D520 with the BCM4311/BCM2050 chipset)... BUT it is painfully slow... worse than dial-up.
I saw some rumors elsewhere that there are problems prior to 2.6.22rc4 (http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2007-June/004859.html).
Any thoughts? Sounds like I'm not the only one with speed problems.