Broadcom 4318, ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant under Linux

I don’t know about others, but for a long time I had problems with using WPA with my Broadcom wireless card in Ruri. Thankfully all troubles are now gone :)

The steps for a working wpa_supplicant are simple:

1. Download the latest wpa_supplicant. I recommend at least version 6.3 (5.x didn’t work for me)
2. Install it and configure it to use Linux Wireless Extensions driver interface, for example by supplying -Dwext to it’s command-line options. Exact configuration depends on your linux distribution – on Gentoo it’s a wpa_supplicant_interface="-Dwext -iinterface" line in /etc/conf.d/net
3. Start it up and voila – wpa_supplicant should be able to properly associate with networks from now on. Do some checking with wpa_gui

Happy wireless surfing :)