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I've got Mageia 2 installed on a lenovo laptop with a broadcom-based wifi card. This machine worked fine until a few months ago when wifi just seemed to stop working. I've just now caught up with the machine (it's my daughter's) and I upgrded it to Mageia 2 thinking that would resolve the issue. It didn't.

I'm now trying to get it to connect with the router and I'm having zero luck. The card is recognized in draknet, but configuring the wireless network shows no SSID (we are broadcasting SSID) and fails to connect to any wifi. We are sitting in a major metro area and there should be a full list of SSID's showing (my Thinkpad is connecting just fine).

I've installed the brjoadcom firmware and the broadcom kernel but I can't find the dkms-broadcom-wl rpm in the repos anywhere. What am I missing and how can I get this thing working.

Thanks.

Mark

ps. I'm not seeing anything obviously related to this wifi card in lsmod.

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And does anybody know, off the top of your head, what module I should be looking for?

Thanks.

Mark

This machine worked fine until a few months ago when wifi just seemed to stop working.

Sounds like a hardware issue.

Ken-Bergen wrote:

This machine worked fine until a few months ago when wifi just seemed to stop working.

Sounds like a hardware issue.

That was my initial conclusion too. We bought a Linksys AE2500 usb wifi dongle and I couldn't get it to install either.

I'm not completely unaware of this stuff, but it's been a while since I had to deal with a wifi issue on a Linux laptop and I'm getting frustrated with this.

I'm going to try getting the dongle to work again.

Thanks.


Mark

Okay, I'm marking this one resolved. I installed the Linksys dongle via ndiswrapper and it seems to be fine. I have to assume that the integrated wifi is defective.

Moving on to the next one.

Mark