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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:26:46 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: broadcom 4306 rev. 3 uses b43 instead of b43legacy
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Richard Schneiderman wrote:
> Larry,
> Thanks for the reply. Ok, I read the documentation again. It does say that the b43 driver is for my chipset
> 
> The problem I'm having is that that while I can see my wireless connection (using iwlist wlan0 scan), I can't connect to it.  In iwconfig with Suse, it doesn't show the access point. In iwconfig in Ubuntu, I get the AP shown but still can't get a dhcp connection.
> 
> This card worked fine in Suse 10.2, 10.3 and Ubuntu 7.10.  What do you think my step in resolving this may be?
> 
> If this needs to into the listserv, i'll resend it there.

In general, this type of mail should be sent to linux-wireless.

Are you trying to use the traditional method with ifup, or are you using 
NetworkManager?

Have you configured the card with YaST?

Larry