{"id":103,"date":"2009-07-16T22:03:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T21:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/broadcom-woes\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:16:13","slug":"broadcom-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/broadcom-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcom woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company laptop (Windows XP) of my wife came with the <a href=\"http:\/\/drivers.softpedia.com\/get\/Other-DRIVERS-TOOLS\/Others\/HP-Compaq-6720s-Broadcom-Wireless-Utility-700C.shtml\">Broadcom software<\/a> for controlling the Wifi settings. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already had so many troubles getting that box to talk WPA to my local WLAN at home (an OpenWrt Kamikaze running on an Alix box) that I switched back to WEP.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I tried to get the Broadcom junk to talk WPA to the Linksys ADSL\/WLAN CPE at my mother&#8217;s place. No go. Just once, for a few seconds it managed to get the TKIP key. Most of the time it failed to negotiate an AES key. Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad I convinced her tech department to give us local admin rights. That way I finally just nuked that dysfunctional piece of sh*** and went back to the default Windows WLAN configuration tool.<\/p>\n<p>That just worked. <\/p>\n<p>Instantly. No hassle at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company laptop (Windows XP) of my wife came with the Broadcom software for controlling the Wifi settings. I&#8217;ve already had so many troubles getting that box to talk WPA to my local WLAN at home (an OpenWrt Kamikaze running on an Alix box) that I switched back to WEP. Last week I tried to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pet-peeves","category-system-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}