Broadcom 4303 HP Pavilion zv5000

Jesús Vidal Panalés
2011-10-17T14:54:22Z

El lun 17 oct 2011 16:46:46 CEST, Larry Finger escribi?:
> On 10/17/2011 03:30 AM, Jes?s Vidal Panal?s wrote:
>> Hello, i have an older computer from my father (HP Pavilion zv5168ea)
>> and i
>> decided to install a Xubuntu distro (tried 11.10, now 11.04) for my
>> personal
>> use, but i can't get a wireless connection to my router (i'm using
>> WPA-personal
>> encryption but tried with open and nothing). The driver is installed,
>> i can see
>> wifi essid on NetworkManager but the connection is never carried out.
>> I've
>> installed firmware-b43legacy-installer because it has the driver for
>> this card
>> but nothing...
>
> Not driver - the driver is part of the kernel. That package installs
> the firmware.
>
Sorry for my mistake.
>> This is the output of lspci -vnn (only wireless card part)
>>
>> 02:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4303
>> 802.11b Wireless
>> LAN Controller [14e4:4301] (rev 02)
>> Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:12f3]
>> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
>> Memory at e0104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
>> Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
>> Kernel modules: ssb
>
> I have snipped the rest of your posting - it looked normal.
>
> Check the settings on your AP to make sure it is not set for "G -
> only". The BCM4303 is an 802.11b device (note above), thus you need
> the "802.11 B/G" setting, whatever it is called for your AP.
>
> My BCM4303 works fine with WEP, WPA and WPA2 encryption.
>
Works fine on Windows XP partition.
> Larry
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