Horrifying, shocking confession.... I don't build my own kernel. I only
have once or twice, and that was just for the fun of it. I've just
never had the reason.
Perhaps some day someone will show me the light. For now, I'm happy
with my stock kernel (as bloated as it may be).
Mike K.
I too am having trouble with the bcm43xx driver.
I downloaded kernel sources for linux-2.6.17.3 and built it using make-kpkg. I think I have all of the dependencies met, yet I too get error messages.
This is on my Acer laptop (that forces me to run XP to write this message... yuk!)
I can provide more details in a future message... Chuck
M. Knisely wrote:
I'm typing this message via the bcm43xx driver. I had no issues with it, but I'm using Ubuntu and it just showed up with a kernel upgrade.
I've not messed with WPA. I run my home AP open and use a VPN for my security. Does it work without WPA?
I have had some fun with getting an Invalid AP. " iwconfig eth1 ap any" takes care of that for me.
I'll check through the errors and see if I can see anything that stands out.
Mike K.
Michael Goracke wrote:
Has anyone had any luck with installing the new native bcm43xx drivers?
I have them installed but I'm having trouble connecting using WPA.
I followed the instructions given on this page for Fedora Core 5 kernel
2.6.17-1.2157_FC5
http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-extras/
I get the following error when I try to start the wpa_supplicant service.
[root@localhost ~]# service wpa_supplicant start Starting wpa_supplicant: ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: No such device Could not configure driver to use managed mode ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: No such device ioctl[SIOCGIFINDEX]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device Failed to disable WPA in the driver. ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: No such device ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device [FAILED] I also get this message when I do "iwconfig".
[root@localhost ~]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Warning: Driver for device dev0 has been compiled with version 20 of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19. Some things may be broken...
dev0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"NSA_FIELD_OPS" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain" Mode:Managed Frequency=2.422 GHz Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
sit0 no wireless extensions.
Could "some of the things that might be broken" include WPA?
MikeG
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