Gloria with b43legacy 4306 dell wireless not working.
 

My wireless card seemed to be recognized and I enabled the b43 legacy driver. It seems to see my SSID, but will not connect. I ran a script to provide you with, what's hopefully useful information (below). Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm running WPA2 with MAC address-limiting (that is only those MAC addresses will be allowed). My system is dual boot, and the wireless works in windows, so I know the MAC address is registered correctly.

OKay - I would take a few hours at it.
1. Stop tying your own shoelaces. get rid of mac recognotion and encryption and get online. Once you can see yourself in iwlist wlan0 scan, use something like

iwconfig wlan0 essid "Valhalla" ap 00:1F:33:DD:97:5A
and a plain 'iwconfig wlan0' shoul have the magic word 'associated'

Then kill dhcpcd/dhclient and restart
dhclient wlan0 to get an IP.

2. Add back your security stuff. wpa2 is quite enough. Remember to run wpa_passphrase on the password which gives you the saucy details for /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

I'll set up my other wireless router and give an open network a try.
(Or I could use my neighbor's unprotected one.) Regardless, I'll check it out and let you know.

To answer your questions:
1) As you can see from my attachment, I can already see my SSID with iwlist: Valhalla

2) I'm not sure what this means:
"Remember to run wpa_passphrase on the password which gives you the saucy details for /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf"

What does wpa_passphrase do for me?

Do I need to disable the network manager that comes with Mint?
Kurt

well, I created a separate wireless network that's unsecured and with no MAC filtering, and I can connect to that on my linksys router.

I disabled MAC filtering and left WPA2, but still, it cannot connect to that SSID on my netgear router.

Any thoughts? I'm still using the MINT network tool.
Kurt

well, this is crazy, but the card will actually connect to my Linksys WRT300N router with WPA2 personal AES encryption set up. But it will NOT connect to my netgear router with "WPA2-PSK [AES]". Nor "WPA-PSK [TKIP] + WPA2-PSK [AES]".

When connecting to the netgear wnr834b with NO encryption, it did not set the nameserver either. I had to manually go to /etc/resolv.conf to add it.

I wonder what could be SO different between the two encryption methods or routers.
K

Maybe it's your wpa_supplicant.conf. Here's a few lines from mine.

proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP WEP104 WEP40

That works for me. Add as many options as you can there. I should go to WPA2, but haven't bothered.

I'll look at that tonight.

OK, I still have the same problem. I can connect to the linksys with my b43legacy, but cannot connect to essentially the identical setup in my netgear router. Any thought -- anyone think outside the box of what it could be. I just upgraded to Mint 8, and still have the same problem.


My /etc/dbus-1/system.d/wpa_supplicant.conf file has the following in it ( I have no file wpa_supplicant.conf in any other directory):
<code>
<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
"-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>
<policy user="root">
<allow own="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>

<allow send_destination="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
<allow send_interface="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
</policy>
<policy group="netdev">
<allow send_destination="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
<allow send_interface="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
</policy>
<policy context="default">
<deny own="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
<deny send_destination="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
<deny send_interface="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
</policy>
</busconfig>

</code>
Kurt

There should be a file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, or maybe /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, with all the details in it. Look at the man page for that mint tool you're using, as it could be doing the job for you, calling wpa_supplicant with commend line options. I don't know it at all.