Hardy - broadcom 4306 - no hair left!

[lswest]

no problem, glad we got it working, and yeah...sorry, but I won't be able to help you with your mouse, i never bother with extra buttons. Good luck with it though, i'm sure you'll find some answers.

[Errrwin]

Instead of making a new thread, Iĺl keep it in this one.

My wireless network does not get past

May  3 14:07:42 desktop kernel: [  537.807625] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
May  3 14:07:42 desktop kernel: [  537.807635] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:19:cb:17:9e:0f
May  3 14:07:42 desktop kernel: [  537.808025] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
May  3 14:07:42 desktop kernel: [  537.808031] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:19:cb:17:9e:0f
May  3 14:07:42 desktop kernel: [  538.006407] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:19:cb:17:9e:0f
May  3 14:07:42 desktop kernel: [  538.205409] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:19:cb:17:9e:0f
May  3 14:07:42 desktop kernel: [  538.404909] wlan0: authentication with AP 00:19:cb:17:9e:0f timed out
May  3 14:07:47 desktop NetworkManager: <info>  Old device 'wlan0' activating, won't change.

I can see wireless networks, just not connect. While my laptop (on XP) has not trouble at all connecting to my AP.

*-network:0             
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci@0000:03:03.0
       version: 03
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64 module=ssb

Any thoughts?

[lswest]

have you tried running the modprobe commands i have mentioned above? also, can you post the output of

cat /etc/network/interfaces

, somehow it seems to have more than one entry somewhere for device "wlan0".

Also, can you configure it manually?

sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid [name of your network] key [network key] && sudo dhclient wlan0

where you replace the things in square brackets with the corresponding info, e.g. replace "[name of your network]" with "Home" (without the quotes) if that's what your network is called.

[Errrwin]

erwin@desktop:~$ sudo cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

erwin@desktop:~$ 
erwin@desktop:~$ sudo modprobe -r bcm43xx
erwin@desktop:~$ sudo modprobe -r b43
erwin@desktop:~$ sudo modprobe -r ssb
erwin@desktop:~$ sudo modprobe b43
erwin@desktop:~$ sudo modprobe ssb
erwin@desktop:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-network:0             
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci@0000:03:03.0
       version: 03
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64 module=ssb
  *-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) LAN Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 8
       bus info: pci@0000:03:08.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:12:3f:b4:74:c1
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=e100 driverversion=3.5.23-k4-NAPI firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.33 latency=64 maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 module=e100 multicast=yes
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:0f:66:1d:72:f5
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

Also, can you configure it manually?

sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid [name of your network] key [network key] && sudo dhclient wlan0

where you replace the things in square brackets with the corresponding info, e.g. replace "[name of your network]" with "Home" (without the quotes) if that's what your network is called.

I keep getting errors when trying to do that. Replaced my networkkey with the always appropriate "wah".

erwin@desktop:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid errrwin@gmail.com key wah && sudo dhclient wlan0
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    invalid argument "wah".
erwin@desktop:~$

I tried connecting with my AP wide open, no security whatsoever, but that ends up in the same error: timed out.

[lswest]

what kind of encryption are you using? WEP hex/ascii, or WPA? if it's WPA i'm not sure of the command to specify that in the terminal. And i assume you were unable to connect via the network manager after running the modprobe commands?

[Errrwin]

what kind of encryption are you using? WEP hex/ascii, or WPA? if it's WPA i'm not sure of the command to specify that in the terminal. And i assume you were unable to connect via the network manager after running the modprobe commands?

I'm using WPA-PSK, nothing fancy.

I have not been able to connect at all, the modprobe commands didn't help either.

I might just do another clean install (as it doesn't take very long at all) and try again on a fresh install.

That will however not be today, I'm going to enjoy the sun. But I'll be back...

[sixsmith]

No errors when I reboot - or none that I can tell

First, re: errors: you can see many errors from during and after bootup at _System_Administration_System Log.

OK, I just got through this myself, getting a TrueMobile 1300 (=Broadcom 4306) working on my Dell Inspiron 5100.

Did you try both ndiswrapper+windows drivers and b43xx? If so, I would recommend to remove ndiswrapper and then redo the b43xx install. That worked for me.

Best of luck!

[R-C-S]

First, re: errors: you can see many errors from during and after bootup at _System_Administration_System Log.

OK, I just got through this myself, getting a TrueMobile 1300 (=Broadcom 4306) working on my Dell Inspiron 5100.

Did you try both ndiswrapper+windows drivers and b43xx? If so, I would recommend to remove ndiswrapper and then redo the b43xx install. That worked for me.

Best of luck!

The one thing about forums is trying to get through the entire one and figure out what steps did and did not work for someone with the same hardware.

I was wondering what steps actually did work for you. I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 with the Broadcom 4306 wireless card. I think it is also known as the TrueMobile 1300 rev02.

I've tried the forums for using bcm43xx as well as ndiswrapper and I have yet to get the wireless to connect. This whole episode almost makes me want to return to Windows.

[adept_king]

I would look at this.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...83&postcount=1

I figured r all the hoops and rings of fire I jumped through to loose the card after every reboot (like you seem to be doing), that anything as simple as what was written there wouldn't work. Yet it did and the card shows up after several reboots.

the file at that page "http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2"

returns the following when the command line "tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2" is run:

bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

it wont extract. cannot proceed further.

[Ayuthia]

the file at that page "http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2"

returns the following when the command line "tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2" is run:

bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

it wont extract. cannot proceed further.

If you have a working wired connection in Ubuntu, you might try deleting that file and downloading it again by doing the following:

wget -c http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2

I am guessing that the file is corrupt. I just downloaded the file and was able to extract the file.

If you don't have a working connection in Ubuntu, you should try downloading the file again.