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roshan67
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 6:08 am    Post subject: Can't Connect To WiFi Using Broadcom Dongle Reply with quote
I am installing Gentoo using linux mint. When I boot into linux mint and croot into gentoo, linux mint and chroot both get connected to wifi using a broadcom dongle. However, when I boot into gentoo, it does not connect to WiFi. It detects the wifi dongle but I can't see a network in ip link command.

I have emerged linux-firmware and broadcom-sta

lsusb output
Code:

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04d9:1203 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc. Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 093a:2510 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:bd17 Broadcom Corp. BCM43236 802.11abgn Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0781:5567 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Blade
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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alamahant
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi
Welcome to Gentoo.
Prpvided that your kernel is correctly configured plz
Code:

emerge -av wpa_supplicant


Then create
Code:

/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

similar to this
Code:

# The below line not be changed otherwise wpa_supplicant refuses to work
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
 
# Ensure that only root can read the WPA configuration
ctrl_interface_group=0
 
# Let wpa_supplicant take care of scanning and AP selection
ap_scan=0
 
network={
  ssid="abcde"
  scan_ssid=1
  proto=WPA
  key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
  pairwise=CCMP TKIP
  group=CCMP TKIP WEP104 WEP40
  psk="xxxxxxx"
  priority=2
}


Then in
Code:

/etc/conf.d/net


Code:

#####WIRELESS
#modules="wpa_supplicant"
#config_wlan0="192.168.2.4/24"
#routes_wlan0="default via 192.168.2.1"
#dns_servers_wlan0="192.168.2.1"

similar.
Code:

rc-update add net.wlan boot
rc-update add wpa_supplicant boot


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