Re: wireless on Debian
I just wrote a tutorial on how I got mine working. It is a Broadcom
Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card, though and not a
4318. It may be a different way of going about it ie a patch that is
necessary. If you want a write up on the tutorial let me know- I can
attach it on a reply.
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:29:15PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> Hardware configurations sure makes a difference. I just loaded the
> bcm43xx module and blacklisted ndiswrapper. My system became absolutely
> unusable for accomplishing anything. The mouse cursor freezes
> intermittently, windows not maximized jump around on the desktop, and
> all the while cpu usage never goes beyond about 2%.
>
> I sure would like to see the configuations of anyone who can use the
> bcm43xx module with the broadcom 4318 chip and wpa_supplicant. I'd much
> rather use the open source module than the Windows drivers, but it just
> seems to be impossible on my system.
>
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 19:52 -0600, Mr Alk3 wrote:
> > I am using WEP encryption, but can set up WPA etc etc. I did notice
> > that when I was configuring the interface to connect to the WEP
> > encrypted AP that it wasn't finding any of the WEP access point in the
> > area. I might have to change my AP to use WPA as I am seeing that most
> > people are getting bcm43xx working with WPA and not WEP. I could be
> > wrong though.
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:23:14AM +0100, pinniped wrote:
> > >
> > > I know there's a section on how to set up wireless stuff in the Debian docs
> > > but I can't find it at the moment.
> > >
> > > Anyway, if you use PSK-TKIP, look here for an example:
> > > http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto#head-6fdd87d329e68a583e5fde32c6b21e460e5541a5
> > >
> > > If you use WPA-PSK (default on WinDos and therefore on most AP applicances)
> > > then you also need the 'wpa supplicant' software - with somne hardware,
> > > everything needs to be done through that, but with other hardware things
> > > are managed magically through the 'interfaces' file but you still need to
> > > install the supplicant to generate a key using the wpa_passphrase tool.
> > > for example, my entry in 'interfaces' looks something like this:
> > >
> > > auto eth2 (yes, the driver calls it eth2 rather than wlan0)
> > > allow-hotplug eth2
> > > iface eth2 inet dhcp
> > > wpa-conf managed
> > > wpa-ssid goaway
> > > wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
> > > wpa-psk blahbalhablhablahblahablhablah (the key)
> > >
> > > To generate the key:
> > > wpa_passphrase SSID PASSPHRASE -- so:
> > > wpa_passphrase goaway thisISthePASSphrase
> > >
> > >
> > >
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