[CentOS] CentOS 5 and Broadcom wireless
Steven Haigh
netwiz at crc.id.au
Thu May 10 08:01:20 UTC 2007
Quoting Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com>:
> On 5/9/07, Steven Haigh <netwiz at crc.id.au> 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.
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Steven Haigh
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