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  1. Bug #68704
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 68704

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Jesper Krogh (jesper) wrote : Re: bcm43xx in edgy doesn't connect to AP anymore

The module loads automatically:

$ lsmod | grep bcm
bcm43xx 124436 0
ieee80211softmac 30720 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 33608 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac

From dmesg:
[17179589.724000] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[17179589.756000] ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[17179589.756000] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno
@linux.intel.com>
[17179589.848000] bcm43xx driver

$ iwconfig
eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4311"
          Mode:Managed Frequency=2.484 GHz Access Point: Invalid
          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm
          RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

But:
$ sudo iwlist eth1 scanning
eth1 No scan results

(even tried iwconfig eth1 rate 11M as suggested on the wiki)