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[Sharon Doig <po_box_304@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HI Slug,
Can you please help me diagnose and fix a problem with my WPA supplicant? What does FATAL: Module wL not found mean?


Here is the out put from my wireless start up:

using interface wlan0
FATAL: Module wl not found.
wpa_supplicant: no process found
dhclient: no process found
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.2
Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium.

If you can shed any light on these two things and help me get my wifi setup properly so there is no unencrypted data being transmitted from my computer to my netcom router.  I am running Open Suse 12.1 on an Asus laptop with the following network card and drivers:

zen:/home/sharon # hwinfo --wlan | grep Driver:
  Driver: "b43-pci-bridge"
zen:/home/sharon # lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
09:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers,

Sharon Doig
Linux novice

 
Sharon Doig 

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Sharon,

Have you got the broadcom-wl driver installed? I believe this driver
came about as a fix for a range of broadcom devices mainly used in Dell
laptops? Just a guess.
--
Regards,
Peter


On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 14:49 -0800, Sharon Doig wrote:
> HI Slug,
> Can you please help me diagnose and fix a problem with my WPA supplicant? What does FATAL: Module wL not found mean?
>
>
> Here is the out put from my wireless start up:
>
> using interface wlan0
> FATAL: Module wl not found.
> wpa_supplicant: no process found
> dhclient: no process found
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.2
> Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium.
>
> If you can shed any light on these two things and help me get my wifi setup properly so there is no unencrypted data being transmitted from my computer to my netcom router.  I am running Open Suse 12.1 on an Asus laptop with the following network card and drivers:
>
> zen:/home/sharon # hwinfo --wlan | grep Driver:
>   Driver: "b43-pci-bridge"
> zen:/home/sharon # lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
> 09:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sharon Doig
> Linux novice
>
>
> Sharon Doig
>
> E: po_box_304@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Blog:  http://www.rosiesstuffnsew.blogspot.com
> ********************************************
> Make your mark and achieve success
> or, if need be, die in the attempt.
> Miriam Leslie
> ********************************************
>