Unsupported driver 'broadcom'

Sebastian Alfredo Salvino sas at noend.com
Mon May 28 07:48:47 EDT 2007


Try it as  wpa_supplicant -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -d

On Monday 28 May 2007 07:15, Andrew Bryant wrote:
> My system is Fedora Core 6 i386 on a Thinkpad T20, with a Linksys WPC54G
> v1.2 card.
>
> The card works on an unsecured network with the Broadcom driver
> extracted from bcmw15.sys using fwcutter.
>
> When I try to start wpa_supplicant   (wpa_supplicant.i386 1:0.4.9-1.fc6)
> # wpa_supplicant -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> -Dbroadcom -d
>
> the response is:
> Initializing interface 'eth1' conf
> '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'broadcom'
> ctrl_interface 'N/A'
> Unsupported driver 'broadcom'.
> Failed to add interface eth1
> Cancelling scan request
>
> Have I mis-understood something?
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
>
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