Sharon, Have you got the broadcom-wl driver installed? I believe this driver came about as a fix for a range of broadcom devices mainly used in Dell laptops? Just a guess. -- Regards, Peter
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 14:49 -0800, Sharon Doig wrote: > HI Slug, > Can you please help me diagnose and fix a problem with my WPA supplicant? > What does FATAL: Module wL not found mean? > > > Here is the out put from my wireless start up: > > using interface wlan0 > FATAL: Module wl not found. > wpa_supplicant: no process found > dhclient: no process found > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.2 > Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium. > > If you can shed any light on these two things and help me get my wifi setup > properly so there is no unencrypted data being transmitted from my computer > to my netcom router. I am running Open Suse 12.1 on an Asus laptop with the > following network card and drivers: > > zen:/home/sharon # hwinfo --wlan | grep Driver: > Driver: "b43-pci-bridge" > zen:/home/sharon # lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 > 09:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g > LP-PHY > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Cheers, > > Sharon Doig > Linux novice > > > Sharon Doig > > E: [email protected] > > Blog: http://www.rosiesstuffnsew.blogspot.com > ******************************************** > Make your mark and achieve success > or, if need be, die in the attempt. > Miriam Leslie > ******************************************** > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
