Bug 2073

Summary:	Broadcom wireless opensource driver doesn't work properly (brcm80211)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Marianne Lombard <marianne>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lists.jjorge, tmb
Version:	1	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kernel-desktop-latest-2.6.38.7-1.mga1	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	dmesg output /var/log/messages extract

Description Marianne Lombard 2011-07-08 06:45:15 CEST

I have a laptop Dell Latitude E6320 with a broadcom wireless card 

brcm80211       : Broadcom Corporation|BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [NETWORK_OTHER] (rev: 01)

The driver can see wireless network but I can connect to my home network (using WPA TKIP/AES, it's a freebox (from the french ISP Free )) 

There is 2 upstream bugs than can be related 
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28992
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38162

Comment 1 Marianne Lombard 2011-07-08 06:58:49 CEST

Created attachment 641 [details]
dmesg output

Comment 2 Marianne Lombard 2011-07-08 06:59:22 CEST

Created attachment 642 [details]
/var/log/messages extract

Comment 3 Marianne Lombard 2011-07-08 07:00:28 CEST

When I try to connect to a wireless network, 2 process stay running even after drakconnect announce the failure :

root      5900  0.0  0.0  21780  1116 ?        Ss   06:55   0:00 /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D wext
root      5902  0.0  0.0   6056   412 ?        S    06:55   0:00 /sbin/ifplugd -I -b -i wlan0

Comment 4 Marianne Lombard 2011-07-08 07:50:08 CEST

The very strange thing is that wireless connection works with an hotspot (captive portal, no WPA/WEP encryption)

Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2011-07-08 10:34:42 CEST

duplicate of  bug 923 ?

Marianne Lombard 2011-07-24 16:55:13 CEST

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 6 Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-29 16:00:14 CEST

Ping ?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 7 Marianne Lombard 2011-10-29 16:07:31 CEST

I have switched with the non-free wl driver (made by broadcom) so ...

Comment 8 José Jorge 2011-11-08 13:25:34 CET

The free driver is still experimental. I had the same problem and also switched to the non-free driver. Closing as we can only wait for upstream to work more on the driver.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => lists.jjorge
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX