[mdlug] WiFi -Woes(?) or Broadcom is 'the' lame

[Robert Adkins]

Mine is a little over 4 years old now.

It's an Inspiron 8500

The WiFi is "working", it just doesn't appear to be properly supporting WPA
authentication.

Router set to WPA-Personal, (Tried both TKIP and AES settings) nothing.

Router set to WPA2-Personal, (Same settings as above) nothing.

Router set Wide Open, no authentication, BAM! Kwifi snatches up an IP
Address and away we go.

I would rather not leave myself wide open.

-Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of R. Kannan
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:45 PM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] WiFi -Woes(?) or Broadcom is 'the' lame
> 
> Rob,
> 
> I have a DELL laptop (D820 circa 2006)with wireless using 
> boroadcom chip and it has been working fine through 
> ndiswrapper but you may have a newer version.
> 
> Raj
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Robert Adkins <radkins at impelind.com>
> >Sent: Nov 29, 2007 9:54 AM
> >To: 'MDLUG's Main discussion list' <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> >Subject: Re: [mdlug] WiFi -Woes(?) or Broadcom is 'the' lame
> >
> >> 
> >> > From: Robert Adkins
> >> 
> >> > > From: Robert Adkins
> >> 
> >> > > 	So, I finally decided to fix my issue of 
> basically ignoring the 
> >> > > WiFi adapter in my old Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop. It 
> has a "Dell 
> >> > > Truemobile 1300"
> >> > > wifi adapter which is using a Broadcom chipset.
> >> 
> >> > 	Nobody got anything on this?
> >> 
> >>  Nope, sorry. I've been lucky and/or careful in picking hardware 
> >> that's supported under Linux. A couple of Atheros-based cards 
> >> (cardbus & desktop) and a Symbol compact-flash card with a PCMCIA 
> >> adapter. Haven't messed with Broadcom at all, nor with WPA 
> (since my 
> >> Symbol card is 802.11b and can't handle WPA).
> >> 
> >>  Sincerely,
> >> 
> >>  Ray Ingles                               (313) 227-2317
> >> 
> >
> >	I hear you.
> >
> >	At the time of buying that laptop, my wife's employer 
> was paying a 
> >decent portion of the tab to order through Dell and they provided a 
> >limited set of options (a Low-end, Midrange and High-End 
> system), with 
> >few customizable elements. I ended up with a really slick 
> (at the time) 
> >machine for far less than it would have cost otherwise.
> >
> >	I also wasn't so concerned with the WiFi card under 
> Linux, since so 
> >few places had "Free WiFi" back then and I had no issues 
> with plugging 
> >it into my home network.
> >
> >	Oh well, maybe I need to pickup a separate WiFi card 
> and go to town 
> >configuring that.
> >
> >	Thanks,
> >	Rob
> >
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