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...scanning -> disconnected Jun 10 21:01:41 ErichLaptop NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: disconnected -> scanning Jun 10 21:01:42 ErichLaptop kernel: SoftMAC: Scanning finished: scanned 13 channels starting with channel 1 Jun 10 21:01:42 ErichLaptop kernel: bcm43xx: set security called, .active_key = 0, .enabled = 1, .encrypt = 1 Jun 10 21:01:42 ErichLaptop NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: scanning -> associating Jun 10 21:01:42 ErichLaptop kernel: SoftMAC: Already associating or associated to 00:18:01:e0:50:32 Jun 10 21...

...then 9) on this but 2.6.23 and 2.6.25 stopped populating various bits of /proc/acpi with the relevant information for the cpu temp sensor to be read accurately (lm_sensors doesn't detect any sensors either in 2.x or 3.x) so i am reliant on the kernel to do the necessary magic. I had been using bcm43xx then b43 to access the card with the 4.x firmware from openwrt and all was good - speedy responsive etc Got fed up with kernel updates attempting to fry the laptop as i after 2.6.23 i had to replace the mobo (opened bugzilla report, no action taken, not complaining coz hey it's a 440BX-M so is...

I'm using CentOS 5 (w/all latest updates as of 2008-01-06) on an HP laptop -- in fact, the exact laptop described here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/HP/Pavilion-ze5300_Series Ever since I switched from SHARED to OPEN authentication (and hence from using ndiswrapper to the bcm43xx module, as explained on that wiki page), I've been having packet loss and/or collision on the wireless device, to the point that recently I've needed to plug in to a wired network in order to get yum updates. I'd like to try installing a newer version of the driver, but I'm having...

Any hope of getting my laptop's Broadcom BCM94311 wireless running on CentOS 5? I find lots of references to using fwcutter to get the needed firmware from Windows drivers, but there's a Catch-22: Version of fwcutter that generate files for the bcm43xx driver in CentOS 5 don't recognize the md5sum of any currently available Windows driver. Newer versions of fwcutter do recognize my Windows XP driver files, but generate output in a newer format that is not compatible with the bcm43xx driver. I've been searching and fi...

Have decided to give up on the embedded Broadcom 4312 wireless device in my son's Dell laptop. I get WEP open authentication to work, but nothing else. I was about to dump the bcm43xx kernel module and the bcm43xx-microcode5.fw firmware and work with the newer b43 module and associated firmware. However, he claims that at school, he has always had intermittent problems with wireless under Vista and wants an external device (USB or PCMCIA). So...if you had a clean slate, which...

I've got CentOS 5 installed on my hp pavilion ze 5300 laptop and the network configuration UI says my wireless NIC has been correctly identified and assigned what appears to be the right Broadcom device driver on eth1. However, the inteface doesn't come up. Google doesn't find anything recent about using Linux with Broadcom except for someone's passing remark that Ubuntu 7 beta

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I'm giving serious thought to loading 5.1 on my Inspiron 1501 laptop, but I'm wondering about certain hardware support such as the following: - - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx) - - USB (Pny Memory Stick - everytime on previous version CentOS has eaten the damned things) - - pptp vpn client(s) Any comments? thanks, Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHfwl4AHUWFbtwP...

Hi all, I have been trying to get CentOS 5.5 running on my Laptop for a while now. I am currently running Fedora 13 for the only reason that my Dell Wireless HSPA 5530 built-in 3G Mobile Device is working. I have tried loading the bcm43xx modules after reading several posts on Google but not able to get this working at all. I have run CentOS on my servers for a while now and love it. Just this last bit that holds me back from going fullt to CentOS. My laptop is a Dell E6400 and I have tried with both x86 and x86_64 without luck....

...ibute the drivers due >> Broadcom's licensing, but does provide instructions and a SRPM (minus >> tarball) for you to build yourself. Every time I encounter big enough trouble about some chipset to have to learn a bit about its internals, I usually learn about its engineering flaw. BCM43xx has the following one: the chip internally is 32 bit, though it sits on 64 bit bus. (Take that with a grain of salt, it's been long time since I looked into that crap). Once I discover the flaw, I add particular hardware in my black list and do my best to not buy anything containing it. Broadc...

I'm not *entirely* sure but this began happening at about the time I installed the latest kernel updates for CentOS 5.1 (kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686.rpm from January 24). Shortly before that I changed the encryption on my wireless router and switched from ndiswrapper back to the standard bcm43xx driver, but I'm pretty sure the network was OK before that update for the simple reason that I was able to download the update itself. In any case, for the past week or so wireless network connectivity from my CentOS 5 laptop has been terrible. The wireless router is set up as my DNS server,...

To upgrade the kernel to CentOS 5.1 (to take advantage of support for Dell wireless card bcm43xx), should I update everything or just type 'yum update kernel', or what? Also, is it OK to remove 'old' kernels (which appear in the boot list) when they are no longer required? Thanks, Andy

...AF7> /usr/lib/dyld Model: MacBookPro5,5, BootROM MBP55.00AC.B03, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.53 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.47f2 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, PCI, 256 MB Memory Module: global_name AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8D), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.42.4) Bluetooth: Version 2.4.5f3, 2 service, 19 devices, 1 incoming serial ports Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1 Serial ATA Device: ST9250315ASG, 232.89 GB Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS23N USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8403, 0x26500000...

...ivers due > > Broadcom's licensing, but does provide instructions and a SRPM > > (minus > > tarball) for you to build yourself. Every time I encounter big enough trouble about some chipset to have to learn a bit about its internals, I usually learn about its engineering flaw. BCM43xx has the following one: the chip internally is 32 bit, though it sits on 64 bit bus. (Take that with a grain of salt, it's been long time since I looked into that crap). Once I discover the flaw, I add particular hardware in my black list and do my best to not buy anything containing it. Broadc...

This is an abbreviated version of an e-mail that I also posted to the ndiswrapper mailing list. Compressing the long story, I ran into the same problem using CentOS 5 as I had with Fedora Core 6 and ndiswrapper: my laptop (HP Pavilion zv6000 series with a Broadcom BCM43xx wireless NIC) would lock up or spontaneously reboot after a few hours if I brought up the wireless interface. I also tried using the native bcm43xx driver but the system wouldn't even boot. On a whim, I tried the current "plain vanilla" kernel (2.6.21) from kernel.org. My lapto...

Hi all, I would like to announce a CentOS on Laptops initiative. The aim is to allow everybody in the community (and on this mailinglist) to document their own experience with CentOS on their laptop (on the CentOS wiki). The goal of this initiative consists of 2 parts: - help and convince people with their own CentOS on laptop installation - promote CentOS on other Laptop websites and fill

Hi all, I would like to announce a CentOS on Laptops initiative. The aim is to allow everybody in the community (and on this mailinglist) to document their own experience with CentOS on their laptop (on the CentOS wiki). The goal of this initiative consists of 2 parts: - help and convince people with their own CentOS on laptop installation - promote CentOS on other Laptop websites and fill

I have a Broadcom 802.11b/g hardware on my dual-boot laptop. Note first that in the WinXP partition, the wifi makes DHCP connections to my router with no problem. Since this was not working in my new CentOS 6 partition, and remembering that there was a driver problem with the old Fedora partition it replaced, I followed instructions founs at:

...=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="94:39:e5:dc:3a:cf", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1" and there is now a blacklist-Broadcom.conf in /etc/modprobe.d/: blacklist b43 blacklist b43legacy blacklist bcm43xx blacklist ssb So I think the driver works and the blacklist - issue that is reported on different sites is ok. I then made an entry in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts: vi ifcfg-eth1 DEVICE="eth1" #BOOTPROTO="dhcp" HWADDR="94:39:e5:dc:3a:cf" NM_CONTROLLED="yes&q...

Has anyone had any luck with getting the Dell TrueMobile 1400 A/B/G wireless card working under Linux? I have experimented with ndiswrapper, i have had nothing but problems trying to get it to work. I was wondering if anyone has found a native Linux driver for the card. It uses a Broadcom 4309 chipset. Regards, Peter

Is there any way I can find a driver and/or get the above wireless card working in CentOS 5 on my Dell laptop (Inspiron 1501). I've installed ipw2200 from RPMForge, but it now appears that this won't work because the card is not an Intel PRO/Wireless card. Dell seem to support only MS Windows Vista now so I don't think there's much chance of getting a driver from them - so am I on