Hello Ljubomir,
thanks a million for your answer. I provided some more info below.
Op 08-11-11 11:59, Ljubomir Ljubojevic schreef:
Vreme: 11/08/2011 07:59 AM, Johan Vermeulen piše:
Dear All,
I'm trying to configure wireless card on a Dell Vostro 1540.
I had a look at this site : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom?action=show
wireless card :# /sbin/lspci | grep Broadcom 12:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
I decided to follow the ELrepo instructions suggested on the site :
http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmodbecause it would give me a clear and present rpm that I can use on different machines and that will survive kernel updates.
This is good choice many of us recommend as best solution.
Question: This is CentOS 6? i386 or x86_64?
this is centos6 x86_64
This all goes down without error messages.
You downloaded appropriate firmware and compiled all of it?
I think so. Exactly as on the site :
http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod
As it all installed without errors, I thought I had everything.
After installing, there is a new entry in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules :
# PCI device 0x14e4:0x4727 (wl) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="94:39:e5:dc:3a:cf", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"
and there is now a blacklist-Broadcom.conf in /etc/modprobe.d/:
blacklist b43 blacklist b43legacy blacklist bcm43xx blacklist ssb
So I think the driver works and the blacklist - issue that is reported on different sites is ok.
What does "iwlist" command give you?
# iwlist Usage: iwlist [interface] scanning [essid NNN] [last] [interface] frequency [interface] channel [interface] bitrate [interface] rate [interface] encryption [interface] keys [interface] power [interface] txpower [interface] retry [interface] ap [interface] accesspoints [interface] peers [interface] event [interface] auth [interface] wpakeys [interface] genie [interface] modulation
that's not good, is it? :-\
Have you installed all other packages needed for wireless?
euh...other packages?
I then made an entry in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts:
vi ifcfg-eth1
Change the name to ifcfg-wlan0
did that. do I have to change anything in /etc/udev/rules.d as well?
after reboot I now see a cabeled network ( wlan0) ( disconnected) and an " Auto wlan0 marked as available....
DEVICE="eth1"
Change to DEVICE="wlan0"
did that
#BOOTPROTO="dhcp" HWADDR="94:39:e5:dc:3a:cf" NM_CONTROLLED="yes" ONBOOT="yes" TYPE=Wireless
Add this:
USERCTL=yes IPV6INIT=no
Why is BOOTPROTO disabled?
I thougt the wireless card requesting an ip adress and then dropping dead might be the problem. Clearly not...
*The problem is* I'm not seeing any wireless networks.
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I think I need to configure something else.
wpa-suplicant?
I will look that up.
I know a lot of you guys don't like NetworkManager but because it's a laptop I would like to use it.
I hope I gave enough info, any help would be greatly appreciated.
greetings, James.
Centos is here to stay, I'm sure.
P.S. I don't have an English spell checker on this machine, sorry for language mistakes :=)
Do not worry about it, most native speaking English don't bother to write correctly.
thanks again!
greetings, James