Re: Broadcom 4306 and WPA with D-Link DI-524

notchrislee wrote:
Hi all,
I am having difficulty getting the broadcom 4306 wireless working in
my laptop. I have tried the default wpa_supplicant.conf settings as
well as many others I have found on the web but nothing is working
properly.

Has anyone had any experience with a similar setup before? Any
insight is appreciated.

Also, is my method of "./rc.inet1 wlan0_restart" okay for trying a new
configuration? Anything I should be aware of as a noob?

The behaviour of the wireless chip doesn't seem predictable at all.
Sometimes I can see (using wpa_cli) that the wpa handshaking process
completes successfully and then will stop working without any change
to the settings. Once, I've even seen the DI-524's DHCP give it an IP
but when I restarted rc.inet1 it wouldn't work again.

I am starting wpa_supplicant with -Bw -Dwext as well as the .conf file
location specification. The system works as expected without
security. I am using the b43 driver as a module. I also have a wired
Broadcom 44xx using b44 driver as module but usually remove the b44
module when tested the b43.

I use wpa_passphrase to generate my key for the wpa_supplicant.conf
file.

Thanks in advance,
chris
Linux 2.6.24.3
Slackware 12.0
Gateway 7320GZ laptop
P4, 512MB RAM

Please send the output from dmesg that occurs after the first message from the ssb module. Your basic setup should be OK, but it never hurts to check.

I put my wpa secret into wpa_supplicant.conf as an ASCII phrase and let it convert it to a key.

By removing the -B from the line that starts wpa_supplicant and adding a -ddd switch, wpa_supplicant will skip going into background mode, and log its internal workings to the console. You should probably post that too.

What version of wpa_supplicant are you using?

Larry
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