Wireless Failure - Broadcom?

[v2k]

I'm unable to get my wireless connection setup. I've read some other broadcom threads, but I don't see a solution. I'm running a fresh install of 3.4a-64.

My wireless card is : Broadcom AirForce One 54g 802.11g

I tried using the KWiFi config to setup the WEP key, it can see various networks, but cannot connect. I've double checked the key data a number of times. I tried KDE and GNOME.

knetworkmanager says 'no active device' and everything is grey.

I enter all my WEP data in the configure for KWiFi and when i apply it it says "Speed settings could not be modified"... any idea?

thanks.

[v2k]

I also went through net-setup, no luck.

[WarraWarra]

Wiki on top of this page might have a fix or gentoo.org wiki or gentoo.org forums if you can not find it here in the forums.

Possible fix = windows drivers bcmwl5.inf and ndiswrapper. Works for my dell 1390 / bcm4311mcg .
Might have to google for " gentoo bcm4311 " or " ndiswrapper bcm4311 " to get the how-to if not in the wiki.
Once after you installed the ndiswrapepr windows driver then you have to load the ndiswrapper part / driver / module using " modprobe ndiswrapper " as root in terminal.

[mdmarmer]

See this post http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewt ... ht=bcm43xx

Mike

[jerryf196]

i have the same problem. It might be an issue with the 64 bit version. I might be wrong. I will try the 32 bit version tonight

Cheers

[v2k]

I replaced my wireless card with something else (05:01.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)) and it seems to connect fine now. However:

1. I get frequently disconnected - even though the router is right next to it and its signal strength is 80%+ - how do I make it auto reconnect?
2. It doesn't connect by default at start up. I go through KNetworkManager manually to do so.

[v2k]

I'm still stuck here. KNetworkManager also seems to crash or become unresponsive at times. Sometimes I have to click the network name a number of times before it tries to connect.

1. how do i reconnect on disconnection?
2. how do i auto connect on startup?

thanks.