broadcom wireless bcm4318 connection problem

[Derek Broughton]

metin wrote:

> hi all,
> I have a notebook with a wireless adapter (broadcom bcm4318). I read
> thoroughly the relevant pages in www.linuxwireless.org but couldn't find
> an answer so I am writing this message to get help. I am having
> connection problems with the module b43; I can connect to the internet
> without problems but the connection drops unexpectedly even in good
> signal conditions totally randomly after a couple of minutes and is  not
>   established again automatically. With the old deprecated module
> bcm43xx, I have no problems but it will be removed from the newcoming
> kernels.

Do you have the up-to-date firmware?  b43 was very unstable for me with
older firmware.
-- 
derek