What is the hardware you are using? Is it supported by open source driver or not?

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211

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CC: (none) => sander.lepik

hi sander,

the hardware i have is:

BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller

isn't supported by open-source drivers, right?

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Yeah, it seems your card only works with b43.

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices

Priority: Normal => release_blocker
Hardware: i586 => All
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

so, will be restored the proprietary drivers for my chipset? thank you

thomas, ca you fix it, please? thank you

Can you post lspcidrake -f for that device ?

lspcidrake -v that is...

Created attachment 3569 [details]
Output of lspcidrake -v

news?

There is test iso on the mirrors for testing broadcom support: http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/people/tmb/mga3-wl-test/ did you try it?

Please test it

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CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #11)
> Please test it

Hi,

I downloaded the image Mageia-3-wl-test-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD .iso today

Good news: I tested it on my DELL INSPIRON 1300 equipped with Broadcom BCM4318.
The WiFi is activated in the starting up of the system.

In console, the iwlist command "wlan0 scan" shows all the networks available.

Unfortunately, I was not able to go farther, the load of the system ends in a black screen no graphic session.

Jean-Claude

CC: (none) => jcstiegler

I managed to launch the graphical interface

I can connect in WiFi in 30 seconds! Bravo.

There is now new sets of isos to test broadcom wireless configuration

And to make it more fun...
there is now 4 isos so you can test on both i586 & x86_64 and with
both Gnome and KDE4.

NOTE! the isos have "CD" in their name, but most of them are bigger
than 700M so you need a DVD media if you want to burn them,
otherwise I suggest to use a usb stick to boot from, using:

dd if=name_of_iso of=/path/to/usb/stick bs=1M

And to find the isos:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/tmb/mga3-wl-test/
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mageia/people/tmb/mga3-wl-test/
http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/people/tmb/mga3-wl-test/

(and soon on any mirror carrying mageia people/tmb/mga3-wl-test/ tree)

Hi reporter, can you test this iso as soon as possible as we are starting the last week for bug fixing before final release? THanks for advance

CC: (none) => ennael1

(In reply to Thomas Backlund from comment #14)
> There is now new sets of isos to test broadcom wireless configuration
> 
> And to make it more fun...
> there is now 4 isos so you can test on both i586 & x86_64 and with
> both Gnome and KDE4.


I tested Mageia-3-test-LiveCD-GNOME-en-i586-CD.iso and Mageia-3-test-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD.iso on my DELL INSPIRON 1300.

The interface BCM 4318 is perfectly recognized by the starting up of the system.

Marcello, have you tested with the isos from Thomas? Can we close this bug?

Ok seems I confused the ethernet and wlan card when modifying the subject.. 
So as it was reported to works fine with a bcm4318 I'm closing this bug. Thanks.

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Summary: BCM4401 (b44) wifi chipset not working in Cauldron => BCM4318 (ssb) wifi chipset not working in Cauldron

i'm sorry but the issue was reported by a user of mageitalia.org. i asked him to test the iso, he said he'll let me know but i don't have still any news... if you still need test i can ask him again... 


cheers,
Marcello