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

Thomas Backlund tmb at mageia.org
Sat Oct 20 23:04:31 CEST 2012


20.10.2012 21:37, Maurice Batey skrev:
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:49:49 +0200, jpbfree wrote:
>
>> man iwconfig ;) for exact syntax.
>
>    Did that, but was scared by the plethora of parameters.
> Without a better understanding of wireless, I don't fee like going
> down that road, I'm afraid.
>    But many thanks for the pointers. Much appreciated.
> I'll wait and see if the Mageia bug handlers can help.
>
> For the time being I will revert to Mageia-2, but may also try a
> different netbook (with better wireless (& better use of external
> monitor)).
>



Are you using drakxtools to configure wlan, or NetworkManager ?

I see the issue when configured with drakxtools, but not with NM.

--

Thomas



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