[MOVED] Yet another broadcom issue

Hi guys,

thanks for great work in this forum. Theres really a LOT for reading on Wifi-Problems in here. However, things are fairly compilcated if one has no clue of hardware-software communication.
Having read quite a few threads and how-to s achieving just a few, I will try to lay out my situation, maybe one of you can help.

I have desktop PC and installed Zorin 9, which, despite one or two freezes and some keyboard language difficulties, works lovely.

Just WiFi doesnt work. I used ndiswrapper to install a netgear wna3100 wlan stick, wich seems to work. Still it appears a problem, which I encountered a lot trying out some distros to find one with WiFi working out of the box.
When I chose my WLAN-network to join, Zorin requests the WiFi-key, then fails to connect and requests again the key.

I have following terminal outputs for you.

Code:

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Zorin
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Zorin OS 9"

Code:

$ lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 8086:2e30 (rev 03)
00:01.0 0604: 8086:2e31 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 01)
00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 0604: 8086:27d2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:27ca (rev 01)
00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:27cb (rev 01)
00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:27cc (rev 01)
00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev e1)
00:1f.0 0601: 8086:27b8 (rev 01)
00:1f.1 0101: 8086:27df (rev 01)
00:1f.2 0101: 8086:27c0 (rev 01)
00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:27da (rev 01)
01:00.0 0200: 1969:2062 (rev c1)
03:02.0 0401: 1412:1724 (rev 01)
04:00.0 0300: 10de:0193 (rev a2)


Code:

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Card Reader/Writer
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0846:9020 NetGear, Inc. WNA3100(v1) Wireless-N 300 [Broadcom BCM43231]
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:c050 Logitech, Inc. RX 250 Optical Mouse
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub


Code:

$ sudo lshw -c network
[sudo] password for popocatepetl:
  *-network               
       Beschreibung: Ethernet interface
       Produkt: AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet
       Hersteller: Qualcomm Atheros
       Physische ID: 0
       Bus-Informationen: pci@0000:01:00.0
       Logischer Name: eth0
       Version: c1
       Seriennummer: bc:5f:f4:10:b5:aa
       Größe: 100Mbit/s
       Kapazität: 100Mbit/s
       Breite: 64 bits
       Takt: 33MHz
       Fähigkeiten: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       Konfiguration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.1.1-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.178.52 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
       Ressourcen: irq:45 memory:f9fc0000-f9ffffff ioport:cc00(Größe=128)
  *-network
       Beschreibung: Kabellose Verbindung
       Physische ID: 1
       Logischer Name: wlan1
       Seriennummer: 08:bd:43:88:ae:20
       Fähigkeiten: ethernet physical wireless
       Konfiguration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+bcmn43xx32 driverversion=1.59+,08/26/2009, 5.10.79.30 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g


I would very much apprechiate your help. Reply for further information.
Thank you!

Hi,

your post got pushed down the list and out of sight for some reason, please wait for MV to reply, he is the WiFi Master!.

A good argument for starting your own threads!.

Did you read this advisory?.

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7393

If you have wpa or wpa2 encryption change it to wep and try again. You can do that from your router's settings.

Preping to move as hijacked thread [Wolfman! ]

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7393

Switched to WEP-encrypting on my router. No change in behavior of WiFi-client. Netgear USB-WiFi-Stick works, but no connection after choosing WiFi-network and entering password.

Thank you for your concern.

Hi, would be useful to know: model of Netgear dongle, make and model of router.