[CentOS] CentOS 5 and Broadcom wireless

Thu May 10 07:54:08 UTC 2007
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?

(Apologies if this appears twice.  Gmail seems to be having a glitch.)
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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