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I'm trying to run an old netbook with Broadcom BCM4313 wireless as a print server with Ubuntu Server 12.04. Setting up the wireless without the GUI, however, is proving problematic. I do think however I've narrowed down the problem.

I've tried both the wl driver (from bcmwl-kernel-source) as well as the (included) brcmsmac driver. With both of them, when I issue the command iwlist wlan0 scanning (eth1 for wl), I only see neighbouring networks- not my own.

I believe this might be because my networks are n-only, but my neighbouring networks are mixed mode (I suspect this because the output of iwlist wlan0 scanning shows "Bit Rates" only as high as 54 Mb/s).

Any ideas how to go about getting this thing to connect?

KJ Tsanaktsidis
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Set your network to mix mode, should fix it up. I had the same problem.

Peachy
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Themes kreen stone
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Disregard me, I'm stupid. The very next thing I looked up on this site claimed that it doesn't support channels > 11, and my wlan was on ch13! Changing this to 11, connection worked a charm with the wl driver, like so:

wpa_passphrase mySSID myPSK >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

iwconfig eth1 essid mySSID

wpa_supplicant -D wext -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

dhclient eth1

KJ Tsanaktsidis
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