Secured Wireless Config

I used bcm-fwcutter on the windows driver/firmware to get the firm ware that i use for my wireless, not sure how that works in the end... or how that helps you, but more info you have the better you can help me...
thanks again??

hit the question marks on that last one sorry..

hit the question marks on that last one sorry..

hello,
what your wireless device?
type in terminal 'lspci' and post the result..

If that dumps too much info, you can try a revised version of that command.

lspci | grep -i wireless

It just filters out everything except info containing the word "wireless". Of course if you get no output at all then try with just lspci as Naufal suggests.

Oh, one more thing. Have you ever been able to connect to "any" wireless network? Broadcom cards are not well supported so it may be that you won't be able to connect until you get the card working. If it's already working then it's another issue.

I know my card works, because I can connect at home, on my own wireless with a wep key none the less. i find it funny.....

also
lspcid pipe grep "Wireless" returned
lspci | grep Wireless
08:07.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
hope this helps..
thanks

hello,
I have the same Wireless Card,and I can avticate it in two ways:
1: open the restricted drivers and install bcm-fwcutter on the windows driver/firmware..
but the result unstabble,( the card work fine,but sometime have a problem )
2:several step:
1: download "bcm43xx-firmware_1.3-1ubuntu2_all.deb" from http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/pool/feisty-cafuego/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-firmware_1.3-1ubuntu2_all.deb
2: install that package
3: I waited 10 - 20 second ( according to speed of machine )
4: I typed at terminal "sudo modprobe bcm43xx"
and my wireless device work in excellent condition even I'm running Ubuntu with liveCd.
hope this help.....

Well, thanks for the information<
     I've tried several different ways of setting up my wireless card... IE I've tried the restricted drivers, didn't work, i've tried the Deb package you suggest, it works with my wireless cars just as well as using the traditional method using bcm-fwcutter on the windows firm ware that also works i've done the mod probe thing... as well... i've tried the ndiswripper thing with no success...

The Problem is not with my wireless card, it is a configuration issue with (some package) i think WPA_supplicant that i don't know how to set up or configure correctly so i can connect to the secured network...

If you have a suggestion of another package i should use other than WPA_supplicant, and know how to set it up. that i can use to connect. that information would help a lot.....

Also if you have information on another wireless card that works wonders and is supported well under Kubuntu/Ubuntu.. and know how to set that up that would help as well...

Thanks.. I hope their is no more confusion...

Are you using Ubuntu 7.10? As far as I know, wpa_supplicant is no longer needed. Network Manager supports WPA encryption and you are trying to do WEP which was supported long before. I've never used knetwork manager or what ever it's called but I've heard it's better than NM so you definitely should not have issues connecting to a WEP router. If your card is working fine, it's probably an issue with your network. Are they using any kind of mac filtering? You mentioned EAP. My understanding is you xsupplicant to use that but I have no experience with it. See http://open1x.sourceforge.net/.

I will try the xsupplicant as you suggest.
Is their any suggestions of other wireless cards, that work well in linux that are natively supported in linux... i use Ubuntu, or debain... i understand that the core linux is the same... but if their is a package i can use that would be great...

I can't find anything specific but the ubuntu wiki has a ton of pages on wifi cards from various companies and how well the worked for people. I don't see a parent page for them all but the link below will give you all the related "wireless hardware" pages.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=hardware+wireless&titlesearch=Titles

Hope that helps.

Through close examination of xsupplicant, the config file i have learned it, just like WPA supplicant has the ability to support what i need. with one exception... nether xsupplicant nor wpa supplicnat offers the ability to turn off the certificate exchange. which is a major part of the authentication process for this connection...
Currently i believe their is no support and i'm closing the call.

Thanks for all the help..