Broadcom wireless drivers... bcm43

[Steve Flynn]

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On 22/03/10 21:16, Fred Roller wrote:

> I'm now at a bit of a loss to start troubleshooting this as I used the
> same drivers in Karmic with no problems and I was initially using Lucid
> with these same drivers without any problems. I'm not sure when the
> issue actually occurred so I can't easily bisect what's been installed
> to track down what the where the issue actually is. This makes reporting
> a lucid bug problematical... maybe when kernel 2.6.32-16-generic was
> installed or maybe not!
> 
> Any suggestions for a way forwards?
> 
>>

> When you look at

>     System --> Administration --> Hardware Drivers

> do have a "Broadcom STA wireless driver" option /and/ "Broadcom B43 
> wireless driver" option.  If so which is active?  Since you mentioned 
> fwcutter, I will assume the latter.  Try disabling the B43 and 
> activating the STA, if it's an option.  From the listing there:

Afraid not - only one option available, "Broadcom B43 wireless driver"
(sadly no version number) with a description of "fwcutter is a tool
which can extract firmware from various source files.It's written for
BCM43xx driver files."

It's currently activated and in use.

lspci tells me

00:0c.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

If I switch over to wireless connection, it finds my AP, connects,
authenticates and it does actually work, but under this current kernel,
its flaky.

/sigh


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