On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:22:24 +0000, Michael D. Berger wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:11:49 +0200, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
Michael D. Berger wrote:
This is a continuation of my previous thread: "Broadcom Wifi Problem"
I didn't follow the whole thread, but have you tried building the nosrc rpm provided by elrepo? Instructions are very clear, and it worked fine for me a few months back for a new laptop (can't remember the brand or model) where I was installing C6 x86_64. http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod
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After doing a patch to get it to compile, I installed wl.ko from the older version: broadcom-sta_5.10.91.9.3.orig.tar.gz without changing anything else from the constructed rpm.
I now get resulis from: ip link and the beginniongs of a connection. But I get:
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
Yes, twice. Googing around I see that this is an old problem. I tried fiddling with the password. Sometimes the password is echoed in the error report, and sometimes not. I even tried a hex password. Nothing worked.
More suggestions, or perhaps a better driver, would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Mike.