"Sarge": Acer 5002WMLI +DLINK G604T wireless router = monstrous headache
If anyone can solve this riddle, they will win a prize. :)
The wireless chip is a Broadcom 4318-series, used with bcmwl5a.
Am attempting to get the above laptop to communicate with the above
router. The router works for *non* wireless, (am connected to it now
via LAN), without trouble. However,
I cannot, despite hours of configuration, tweaking, reading,
double-checking and note-taking, get the above combination to work.
The wireless chip is working by itself: drivers load, hardware's
present, an inet6 addy is even assigned. However, it cannot get a
DHCPOFFER from the router. There are, from what I can gather, 4
variables pertaining to this:
1) The router is *not* ipv6-capable (we're Down Under - inet6 isn't
used here yet). Yes, there are tunnels: 2 of them. I would like only
one, but then ioctl won't let me remove either of them.
2) The tunnels both read as ip6-over-ip4, which is fine. The one in
use, under ifconfig, always reports errors, though TX, RX, etc. remain
at 0. I'm still trying to find out why this is so.
3) Attempts to turn wlan0 on at boot result in System Tools ->
Networking and System Tools -> Network Tools almost always crashing.
Again, I have no idea why this is so.
Ndiswrapper loads the appropriate driver at boot, everthing looks great.
4) I cannot get
iwlist wlan0 scan
to print out a blessed thing. It says: no scan results. Yet iwconfig
wlan0 prints out everything except essid, ap, and an ipv4 address.
These, btw, are unable to be set via iwconfig.
At this point, I don't know if the chipset has died (the system's only
6 months old, and rarely (and gently) used, or if there's a switch I
don't know about to turn wlan0 on, or what.
Thanks for any help you can give...
Steph
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