[Mageia-discuss] Mageia-3-Alpha2: Broadcom wireless driver fails to connect to SSID

[jpbfree]

Le 20/10/2012 13:49, jpbfree a écrit :
> Le 20/10/2012 12:59, Maurice Batey a écrit :
>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:12:52 +0200, jpbfree wrote:
>>
>>>   i cannot have a wireless connection when configure through
>>> the gui,with or without network manager (no problem when configuring
>>> with the wireless tools from the cmdline)
>>     So you do now have a connection to a SSID?
> yes
>>
>>     What cmdline command(s) succeeded, please?!
> servant:-)
> as root (and from the top of my old brain)
>
Ooops forgot.
First enter the iwconfig command without any parameter and
replace eth? in the following cmd with the network name of  a device 
which have wireless extension.
> iwconfig eth? essid you-network-name mode managed
> iwconfig key [1] your wep-or-wpa-key
> and after
> dhclient eth?         if dhcp is configured
> (in my case the dhclient request is automagically done once associated 
> with the A.P)
>
>
> *RTFM ie man iwconfig ;) for exact syntax.
> for further investigation have a look at the other iw* tools.
> **depending on your distrib/version you may have to install the 
> wireless-tools pkg (or equivalent)
> (installed by default on my mga3a2).
>>
>>> the network icon disapeared from the taskbar (KDE)
>>     Has not done that here (yet).
> JPB
>
please tell us your results/problems (maybe I or others can help you 
further).

JPB