Broadcom 4318, ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant under Linux
Posted: 2008-04-06 Filed under: computers | Tags: broadcom, howto, linux, ndiswrapper, wireless, wpa_supplicant 2 Comments »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:
- Download the latest wpa_supplicant. I recommend at least version 6.3 (5.x didn’t work for me)
- Install it and configure it to use Linux Wireless Extensions driver interface, for example by supplying
-Dwextto it’s command-line options. Exact configuration depends on your linux distribution – on Gentoo it’s awpa_supplicant_interface="-Dwext -iinterface"line in /etc/conf.d/net - 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 :)
Hi..
I´m looking for to connect my broadcom (or Atheros) router in client mode to a public wireless network, but it uses PEAP authentication. I´ve authorization to use the network, but i cant get it work using PEAP.
I´ve tried dd-wrt and openwrt..with no sucess, do you any clue how to make this work?
thanks.
Unfortunately no – As far as I know, the routers use a Broadcom binary driver (at least in case of broadcom cards), which is completely undocumented, but seems to work. I only had experience with my laptop (I still haven’t got an AP in my house)