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? (Apologies if this appears twice. Gmail seems to be having a glitch.) -------------- next part -------------- bcm43xx: Radio turned on bcm43xx: Chip initialized bcm43xx: DMA initialized bcm43xx: 80211 cores initialized bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1141 bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1141 bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1141 bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1141 bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1141 bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1141 bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1141 bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1141 bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1143 bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1143 bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1143 bcm43xx: TODO: Incomplete code in keymac_write() at drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c:1143 bcm43xx: Keys cleared SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first. SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1 SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready SoftMAC: Scanning finished SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to 00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee SoftMAC: Cannot associate without being authenticated, requested authentication SoftMAC: Already requested authentication, waiting... SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee. SoftMAC: Open Authentication with 00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee failed, error code: 13 bcm43xx: Radio turned off