Broadcom wireless is driving me nuts!

[Keith Clark]

> Keith,
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 20:45 -0700, Keith Clark wrote:
> 
> > 
> > As an update....I managed to find the correct .inf driver file and this is now 
> what I have to do upon booting up to get my wireless working really well under 
> ndiswrapper:
> > 
> > sudo modprobe -r b43
> > sudo modprobe -r ndiswrapper
> > sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
> > 
> > I just wait a few moments and I'm back up and running with a 54 Mb/s speed 
> rating versus the 1 Mb/s under b43.  
> > 
> > How do I now make this a permanent change?
> You need to blacklist the b43 module.  You should be able to do this
> with a line in file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist like
> blacklist b43
> 
> Note: there is an entry in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist as follows for
> hardy:
> # replaced by b43 and ssb.
> blacklist bcm43xx
> 
> 
> So it may pay to register a bug against the b43 driver for the limited
> speed.
> 
> 
> Tim


Thanks for the help Tim!  I'll try that tonight and see how that works out for me.  I will also look into registering the bug.

Keith