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openSUSE-10.3-alpha5, WPA-PSK, bcm43xx E-mail
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Monday, 25 June 2007

I  tested  openSUSE-10.3-alpha5-dvd-i386  on my Compaq Presario V3222AU

notebook with Dell 1390 wlan adapter of miniPCI express type.  It comes with

the bcm4311 chipset which is one of  the most  incompatible of the Broadcom

chipset  model.  What  made me use the  openSUSE-10.3  which is still  under

heavy  development?  The  openSUSE-10.2  cannot even detect my  Dell 1390

wlan adapter (with  Broadcom's  bcm4311  chipset)  despite  having  the open

source bcm43xx driver.  Just imagine!!  Another  very  non-appealing  thing is

the very out-dated  'saviour'  ndiswrapper package found  in  openSUSE-10.2.


 

 

The driver for this notebook that I downloaded from HP, uses the bcmwl6.inf

and the bcmwl6.sys files  instead of  the usual bcmwl5 type. And I wouldn't be

surprised if the cabextract tool cannot extract the *.sys and *.inf files from the

*.exe file which I downloade from HP.   Of course,   another pain  would  be,

whether the not-so-updated bcm43xx-fwcutter,  would be able  to  extract  the

firmwares from the bcmwl6.sys file or not.  So many  unfavourable variable

when using openSUSE-10.2 on my Compaq Presario V3222AU notebook that

comes with Dell 1390 wifi adapter (with the infamous bcm4311 chipset),  led

me to test openSUSE-10.3-alpha5-dvd-i386!

 

 

I  managed to excise the long process/story short by keeping the firmwares for

the wifi bcm43xx chipset in my handy usbkey.  Actually,  I easily collected the

bcm43xx firmwares  when  I tried the  Ubuntu 7.04 Live CD on my  Compaq

Presario V3222AU notebook recently. While I was in the Ubuntu 7.04 desktop,

I executed the apt-get install bcm43xx-fwcutter  to get the bcm43xx firmwares

to be placed in the  /lib/firmware  folder of  Ubuntu 7.04.   From there,  I  just

copied those firmwares to my lovely usbkey.

 

 

After installing the latest preview of openSUSE-10.3-alpha5-dvd-i386 to my

Compaq Presario V3222AU with the Dell 1390 wlan adapter (with bcm4311

chipset), I copied those firmwares to the /lib/firmware folder of openSUSE-

10.3-alpha5-dvd-i386 from my loyal usbkey.  Then,  everything just worked!

I could connect to my Prolink wifi Adsl router(made in Singapore) with the

WPA-PSK encryption enabled,  from  the  Compaq Presario V3222AU note-

book using the Dell 1390 wlan adapter (with the bcm43xx chipset on it).

 

 

No problem at all with these firmwares that I downloaded from the Ubuntu

repository, with the open source bcm43xx driver.  No problem with  WEP

either!  Thanks to the bcm43xx firmwares I that collected from the Ubuntu

repository.  Please be informed  that  the open source  bcm43xx  driver  is

installed by default on many Linux distros too. 

 

 

Below is a screenshot of the succesful connection from the Broadcom's

bcm4311 wlan adapter with encryption protocol turned off on the Prolink. 

 

Image

 

 

 

Succesful connection with the WPA-PSK  encryption protol enabled on my

Prolink Adsl wifi router,  as seen from the CLI.

 

Image

 

 

Succesful connection with the WPA-PSK encryption protocol enabled on my

Prolink Adsl wifi router, as seen from the versatile Networkmanager.

 

Image

 

 

 

 

 

By Michael Shee Choon Beng.

 

 

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