several discrepancies with new -2139 kernel.

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Wed Jun 28 17:41:17 UTC 2006


On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> In fact, for most mobile applications, NetworkManager is the better tool 
>> anyway.
>> 
> I've never been able to make it work with the broadcom radio in this lappy. 
> To me NM is terminally broken. YMMV of course.

I have an ipw2200 and an Orinoco and my M does indeed V.  But from the 
NM FAQ:

     I'm using a Broadcom 4xxx-based card, but NetworkManager won't connect
     to my wireless network. Why?

     The Broadcom wireless drivers are under active development and have
     come a long way, but are not quite as mature as others. It's a good
     bet that bcm4xxx problems will be solved in furture kernel versions.
     Until recently, this driver did not support the Shared Key WEP
     authentication mode, still used by many access points. There are also
     reported problems connecting to open networks.

     A workaround might be to use the NDISWrapper driver instead of the the
     bcm43xx driver included in the Linux kernel, at least until the kernel
     driver version fixes these bugs.

So YMMV in the future as well, and I'd recommend you keep trying.  It's a 
nice tool when it works.  Reports I've seen of success with ndiswrapper 
have been mixed.

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs




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