age possibly suggests uses "-Dbroadcom", but the
following supports "-Dwext" since I have the b43legacy driver working (firmware
extracted using b43-fwcutter a while back; dmesg reports version 0x127).
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
I have both the iwconfig ut
This is my etc/conf.d/net file:
modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext"
preferred_aps=("ESSID1" "ESSID2")
essid_wlan0="any"
All specific stuff is in /wpa_supplicant/supplicant.conf
Zeerak
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:17:15 +010
ot; )
> iwconfig_wlan0="mode managed"
> wpa_timeout_wlan0=15
>
> Both these were based on configurations I found while researching gentoo
> wireless configurations:
>
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wireless_Networking
>
> the wpa_supplicant man page possibly suggest
tten off any wireless on Linux now. My time is worth more than the
> > hours of troubleshooting. Keep plugging, you just might get it.
>
> Well, there's always ndiswrapper and the MSWindows driver to consider, when
> all Linux solutions fail or don't work that well.
>
> I
nly says that your config doesn't
> > contain references to b43.
> >
> > If you do "make menuconfig" and then search for b43 (type slash to reach
> > the search functionality) many entries will show up: I count 23 hits in
> > 2.6.39-gentoo-r1 kernel.
> &g
t; >>
> >> Have you been through the guidance in this page to find out which
> >> kernel driver you ought to use with your card?
> >> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
> >
> > Yes. Unfortunately it's a 14e4:4320/ with BCM4306/2 Chip s
lier, but for some reason
grub won't boot it - perhaps b/c I gzip compress the kernel (kernel option)?
Not sure. Going to figure it out though.
Right now, I'm using a vintage 2007 live CD; but chrooting over to the
partitions
on the hard drive. I don't have network since it won'
n0): driver
> supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01). Sep 7 23:01:43 pneumo-martyr
> NetworkManager: (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver:
> 'b43legacy') Sep 7 23:01:43 pneumo-martyr NetworkManager:
> (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 Sep 7
&
No scan results
>
> Your device has not been initiated, therefore it would not be able to scan
> until then.
True.
>> It also returns "0". I have wlan0 logs directed to
> /var/log/net/wireless,
>> here's the output from the last attempt:
>>
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