Re: [Fwd: Re: Installing a Broadcom 4312 rev 02 wifi card]
Korrignu wrote:
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> Subject:
> Re: Installing a Broadcom 4312 rev 02 wifi card
> From:
> Korrignu <korrignu@gmail.com>
> Date:
> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:31:10 +0100
> To:
> kishore <kishore@vodafone.it>
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> To:
> kishore <kishore@vodafone.it>
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> kishore wrote:
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>> Machiner has wrote a nice tutorial at
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>> www.debiantutorials.org
>>
>> Please read also the comments. I resolved atleast a dozen laptops (HP,
>> Acer & Compaq) with similar problems following his guides...
>>
>> Kishore
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>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 09:09 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
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>>
>>> Celejar wrote:
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>>>
>>>> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:46:06 +0100
>>>> Korrignu <korrignu@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> hi,
>>>>> i have some problems since i bought my new laptop
>>>>> in fact i have a wifi card with a briadcom 4312 rev 02 chipset
>>>>> and i don't know how to set up
>>>>> i installed b43-fwcutter and then i load b43 module
>>>>> but nothing happens
>>>>> no new wireless interface etc...
>>>>>
>>>>> so i don't know if this chipset is supported by the b43 module
>>>>>
>>>>> if i install the broadcom STA/wl module, it works asa long as i don't
>>>>> want to use a WPA-EAP with TTLS wifi network
>>>>> because this lead to a kernel panic ...
>>>>>
>>>>> have I somebody already installed this kind of wifi card ? and how ?
>>>>> or have sombedy have some informations to do that ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> The 4312 is listed as supported:
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>>>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#supported
>>>>
>>>> Post the relevant dmesg excerpt and lspci output.
>>>>
>>>> Celejar
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>>> I have this card in an HP 8000dv and it has never worked without
>>> ndiswrapper. That doesn't even work anymore. I don't know if the XP
>>> drivers were updated or not but b43-fwcutter always told me the firmware
>>> wasn't correct now no matter which driver I chose just before I finally
>>> dumped the card.
>>>
>>> It was a lousy card to begin with. Reception was very poor even using
>>> ndiswrapper and it would drop the connection at least once an hour.
>>> Every usb wifi card I tried reported far better signal strength from the
>>> same position and so did the Intel mini-pci cards. None of them dropped
>>> connections either. My advice, if you have the money to spend, is just
>>> get another card such as one of the intel mini-pci cards that fit into
>>> the same slot in the motherboard. They work much better and report much
>>> better signal strength.
>>>
>>> I know some people got 4312 card to work, but in my hardware
>>> configuration it never did work right. With ndiswrapper I couldn't use
>>> any security and with the open source driver it just plain old didn't
>>> work at all.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> Hi,
> i received an re answer from linux-wireless mailing list :
> "
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>> The *BCM4312* is somewhat of a problem as there are two completely different
>>
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>> devices that use that identification. You need to look at the PCI ID to tell if
>> it is supported. Use the command 'lspci -n'and look for a line that has
>> "14e5:43XX" in it. If XX is 15, it is not supported. The fact that you have to
>> load the b43 module manually suggests that it is not supported. The other thing
>> to do is the command 'dmesg | grep b43'.
>>
> "
>
> so i have no other solution, i have to use the broadcom module
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Hi,
I found the solution !
the problem was due to Broadcom driver, there was a bug with WPA
enterprise support
but they published a patch and now it works !
Thanks for your help
K.
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