Broadcom driver not working.

After reading about the bcm43xx driver which supposedly supports the Apple Airport Express card—a wireless interface that I have in this laptop—I tried to install it. It compiles, detects the hardware, and is able to detect my wireless network ("iwlist scan" does indeed detect my cell, the one of the neighbour across the street, and even two extra cells that I didn't know of beforehand).

It does seem to be able to associate with my access point, too; when I set the ESSID to the one of my access point, it does list the MAC address of my Access Point in the "iwlist" output. However, actually using the network does not seem to be possible—running dhclient does not result in getting an IP address, nor does manually setting an IP address and trying to ping any host on the network actually do anything. Also, "wavemon" does not work, either.

Pity. I guess I'll have to stick to my zd1211 USB wireless thing for the time being. Which isn't too bad either—except that I forgot it at the office last week, and I haven't had the chance to pick it up yet, in the mean time.

Oh well. Tomorrow, it's back