FC8, Dell and bcm43xx_fwcutter not playing nice

nga_tom · #1 21st November 2007, 01:24 AM

I am trying to get wireless networking up and running on a Dell 600. I have a fresh install of FC8. bcm43xx_fwcutter was automatically installed.
I ran lspci which provided this line
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

I ran lspci -vn which provided this
02:03.0 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 02)
Subsystem: 1028:0001
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at fafee000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

Checking the list of bcm43xx supported cards directed me to this driver from Dell R83097

I copied the bcml5a.inf and bcmwl5.sys files from the AR subdirectory to the Linux box

I ran bcm43xx_fwcutter and installed directed the driver to be installed in /lib/firmware - an ls of that directory provides
[root@localhost firmware]# ls -l bcm*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3464 2007-11-20 13:19 bcm43xx_initval01.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3464 2007-11-20 13:19 bcm43xx_initval03.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2416 2007-11-20 13:19 bcm43xx_initval05.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248 2007-11-20 13:19 bcm43xx_initval06.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2416 2007-11-20 13:19 bcm43xx_initval07.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2416 2007-11-20 13:19 bcm43xx_initval08.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248 2007-11-20 13:19 bcm43xx_initval09.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248 2007-11-20 13:19 bcm43xx_initval10.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16368 2007-11-20 13:19 bcm43xx_microcode2.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18416 2007-11-20 13:19 bcm43xx_microcode4.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21088 2007-11-20 13:19 bcm43xx_microcode5.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1144 2007-11-20 13:19 bcm43xx_pcm4.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1144 2007-11-20 13:19 bcm43xx_pcm5.fw

I have configured wlan0 through iwconfig and set the SSID to the wireless router (BELKIN)
I set the security code,

network manager has both Enable Networking and Enable Wireless checked
BELKIN shows up in
When I click on BELKIN a dialog appears and says secrets required by wireless network, I select WEP 40/128 bit Hexadecimal, enter the code and have tried both Open System and Shared key - then select connect - things churn around for about a minute and then the dialog reapears. I know the key is correct.

when I type in ifconfig wlan0 up I get the following error
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

So what am I missing or doing wrong, this is becoming more than annoying.

Any help would be appreciated - I had a similar set of issues with ndiswrapper - just not on this install - that was yesterday before I decided to reinstall and start from scratch

thanks
tom