Quoting Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer@xxxxxxxxx>:
On 5/9/07, Steven Haigh <netwiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is it a bcm43xx card? check your dmesg output and see if it needs a
firmware file. If so, that's where you start. If not, ndiswrapper
works :)
Thanks for that pointer ... I got bcm43xxx-fwcutter and extracted the
firmware files from the bcmwl5.sys file on my Windows partition. Now
the driver loads and dmesg indicates that it is scanning for networks.
It even makes an authentication request, which fails. I've attached
the bit of dmesg output that shows what it's doing (MAC address of my
router redacted).
I have used system-config-network to set the SSID, channel, and hex
password. I set the network "Mode:" to "Auto". The dialog does not
offer a choice of WEP, WPA, etc. I've looked at the RedHat docs for
setting up wireless networking and I think I've done everything
suggested. What do I try next?
This is as far as I got in trying to get this working. I just couldn't
get it to connect to my wireless gear. In the end, I ended up going
with ndiswrapper. Things may have changed in this respect though - as
this was ~8-10 months ago.
--
Steven Haigh
Email: netwiz@xxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.crc.id.au
Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0404 087 474
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