Tony Godshall wrote:
>
> So, anyhow, the moral of the story is this:
>
> Don't be too quick to blame software.
I'm not quite sure where that moral was to be found :-) After all, we've
already agreed that there's a basic problem with the b44 - whether it's the
driver software or the hardware is hard to say - but it's how the software
deals with that that's causing my issues.
Different driver may help here.
>
> PS: I used to use whereami too, but went back to a
> config based on /network/interfaces and a little custom
> mapping script. which, by the way, let me put a timeout
> for the b44 to settle down. And it's based on
> iputils-arping, which is lightning fast when it detects...
>
I always use /etc/network/interfaces. Have not had problems other the WPA-PSK wireless security not supported directly.