HOW-TO install the Broadcom bcm43xx Driver in Debian Linux and enable WPA Encryption this HOW-TO was made using Debian etch with kernel 2.6.18-4-686 My network card is a Belkin Wireless G Plus Part Number F5D7011 ver. 2000 Wireless Access Point: Linksys WRT54GL You may want to ensure you have the wireless tools and wpa security tools installed before you begin Go to http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ and download the bcm43xx-fwcutter tool bcm43xx-fwcutter-006.tar.bz2 Extract the Source In order to have everything in one place I copied the Driver folder from the CD that came with my wireless card to the Laptop. so my directory structure now looks like this Change into the directory the source was extracted to Compile the bcm43xx-fwcutter tool At this point you may issue the list command for the bcm43xx-fwcutter tool ( bcm43xx-fwcutter -l ) to see what file in the driver I was looking for. According to the list command and the files I have in the Driver directory the file I want is called bcmwl5.sys You should now use the Firmware Cutter tool to extract the wireless card firmware from the windows driver you will need to be root in order to install the firmware into the directory it belong in the firmware should now be located in /lib/firmware At this point you need to ensure the Wireless card is listed in your /etc/network/interfaces file eth1 is my Wired network interface eth2 is the Wireless network interface check to ensure the Module for your wireless card is loaded if the module isn't loaded load it now At this point you can check if the network card can see your Wireless access point. your access point should be configured without security at this point for testing. If the Wireless card can see your access point you are in good shape at this point Bring up the interface to see if you can connect and get an IP address. From the response it shows the card came up and was able to get an IP address from the Wireless Access Point successfully WPA ENCRYPTION CONFIGURATION Configure your Access Point so that it uses encryption: WPA with Pre-Shared Key authentication (also called WPA-Personal) and AES encryption . Make note of your SSID in the Basic Wireless Settings. For the Wireless Security, I made up a secret key (64 characters 1-9, a-f), but you should use 32 bytes of secret that are really random. One method to generate the secret on Linux is: dd if=/dev/random bs=32 count=1 2>/dev/null | od -An -tx1 then remove all spaces and newlines... Make sure 'Wireless SSID Broadcast' is set to 'Enable', because that will be required later. Disabling the SSID broadcast or filtering on MAC addresses only provide weak bandwidth/privacy protection anyway, and you are setting up the stronger WPA encryption which guarantees that only somebody who knows the secret can interact with your Access Point. Configuration of WPA wpa_supplicant is installed by default, if not, install the package 'wpasupplicant'. Create the file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and insert the following: Make this file readable only for root Edit /etc/network/interfaces and add the lines for the wireless and WPA encryption Test the WPA configuration by restarting the wireless interface
Verrify the connection is up and encryption is enabled The SSID Mathches my configuration Encryptionh Key is ON WPA is enabled You are DONE !!
Nov 28, 2017 - Description: Date & Version du drivers:, 1.558.53.1; Origine: NC; WHQL: oui; Officiel: non; Sous: Windows 10; Systemes: 32/64bits.