Hallo,
A week ago I bought a HP Mini 5101 with SLED 11.
The WLAN Card is Broadcom 4353
The Network I want to connect to is WPA-PSK encoded.
I use Network Manager and pick the Network I want to connect to. Then I want to pick WPA-PSK but I cannot. The only Option I have is "WPA2 & WPA2 Personal". Of course, using this option does not work.
So I opened Yast and tried to do it "the old-school way" aka ifup. There, I can select WPA-PSK but although I can set it up just fine, I still don't connect to the network.
Then I tried updating the system by ethernet, which worked fine, but did not improve anyhting concerning WLAN.
Then I tried using ndiswrapper and a Windows Driver, but this did not help me either. Although I did not blacklist the old driver, I manually picked ndiswrapper in ifup. Could that be the problem?
Last but not least I just tried this driver here:
Broadcom.com - 802.11 Linux STA driver
and used it to replace the old one (which probably was just the same), which didn't bring me any further.
I just don't know what else to do.
Nearly all my networks (university, work) use WPA and I just cannot connect to it. It almost seems like the card doesn't support it.
In the next couple of days I might be able to try WEP and WPA2 and figure out if that works.
Untill then maybe some of you know something I don't.
SLED 11 Broadcom 4353
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