wifi, broadcom 4306 unable to get ip address

czarus · posted: 2012-05-17 16:59

I am a Linux newbie and have some problems to setup my wireless connection. I have a pci card with a Broadcom 4306. I think i managed to install the drivers. It finds my router but in wcid: obtaining ip address ..... followed by unable to get ip address. I tried also in ceni and in rutilt. I have now removed rutilt , read on other tread that it might clash with wicd. I have also put ndiswrapper on the blacklist. What am I doing wrong?

Please help me

For the rest I really like Antix, much nicer than XP!!!!

anticapitalista · posted: 2012-05-17 17:51

Give us some details of your system by typing inxi -F in a terminal.

Best to try without ndiswrapper at first. This should help.

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czarus · posted: 2012-05-17 18:29

This is what inxi -F gives:

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System:    Host hplaptop Kernel 2.6.36-1-mepis i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M11-486 Jayaben Desai 01 May 2011
CPU:       Single core mobile AMD Athlon XP2400+ (-UP-) cache 512 KB flags (sse) bmips 1059.98 clocked at 529.992 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: ATI Radeon Mobility U1 bus-ID: 01:05.0 X.Org 1.9.5 Res: 1024x768@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI R100 (RS100 4336) 20090101 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE NO-TCL DRI2 GLX Version 1.3 Mesa 7.10 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card ALi M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device driver ALI 5451 port 8400 bus-ID: 00:06.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.23
Network:   Card-1 Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller driver b43-pci-bridge bus-ID: 00:09.0
           Card-2 National Semiconductor DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller driver natsemi port 8c00 bus-ID: 00:12.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 40.0GB (6.1% used) 1: /dev/sda ST94011A 40.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 35G used: 2.3G (7%) fs: ext3 ID:swap-1 size: 2.18GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Info:      Processes 102 Uptime 1:36 Memory 231.2/437.5MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.95

rokytnji · posted: 2012-05-17 21:30

Card-1 Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller driver b43-

Your look like you installed the right driver

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What does

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ifconfig -a

show as root in terminal as far as network interfaces go?

czarus · posted: 2012-05-18 07:14

This gives ifconfig -a , on wlan1 I have my wifi usb stick (which works fine) and on wlan0 is the broadcom:

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eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0d:9d:82:f7:b5  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:348 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:348 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:27872 (27.2 KiB)  TX bytes:27872 (27.2 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0b:cd:75:f4:89  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan1     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:b3:54:5a:35  
          inet addr:192.168.1.12  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2202 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2064 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:1292393 (1.2 MiB)  TX bytes:353540 (345.2 KiB)

rokytnji · posted: 2012-05-18 14:32

Then I don't know why when you put wlan0 in wicd wireless preferences you fail to get a connection. I run wpa2 psk encrypted wireless on my wireless router and after typing in wlan0 in wicd preferences and hitting the refresh button. I see my router. I enter my passphrase. Hit connect. Then I am on wireless. You say the usb stick connects OK via wlan1. Makes me wonder if the broadcom chip may have a hardware glitch of some sort causing it to not find IP address.

czarus · posted: 2012-05-18 18:23

I also don't know why....... Usb stick connects fine. Broadcam card also 'sees' the router but does not get an IP address from the router. In windows XP the card worked fine. I am lost...... This is too difficult for me. Who has any ideas?