Re: Wireless module bcm43xx in 2.6.17 kernel
H.S. wrote:
Freddy Freeloader wrote:
Well, that was a good idea, but it didn't work. I simply cannot
connect with any type of encryption. There is a line in dmesg that
says "Cleared all keys" before the card starts sending out sending
out dhcp requests, so I'm guessing that is what the problem is. And,
the output from iwconfig says that Encryption is off no matter how I
set up /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. and I have gone all the way through
the wpa_supplicant site looking for a way to enable it but been
unsuccessful in my search.
WEP isn't supposed to require wpa_supplicant to work. Try by disabling
wpa_supplicant. In the laptop running Ubuntu here, wpa_supplicant is
disabled; the bcm43xx doesn't see that package at all and WEP works
flawlessly. In fact, IIRC, I faced problems with wpa_supplicant, never
got it working.
->HS
Well, I have disabled wpa_supplican't and the problems have gotten even
worse. WEP doesn't work and my unencrpypted connections are now very
flaky. When I first open a browser my home page will load and then
after that every link I click the browser will connect to the site, sit
there for a minute or so and then report the page as loaded (Done) while
the page is still blank.
I used a packet sniffer to see what was going on and my browser will
send http get requests, the site will return a few packets, my browser
will continue to send http requests on an intermittent bases because no
response is recieved for a while, and then for every occasional packet
that is returned in response to the http requests I will also get
duplicate packets. Then the server and my computer will shut down
communication with fin and fin-ack packets even though the page has
never loaded. But, when I ping the site all packets sent are returned,
but with a ton of duplicate return packets. If I send 1000 pings I will
get back 1000 returns plus 800 duplicate packets.
I have been able to connect once in a while with a broswer and get a few
pages to load, but then I'll start getting 400 errors from the site (bad
requests) I'm connected to. This will usually happen after a connection
has lasted for a minute or so.
At this point I'm almost starting to suspect my wireless access point as
the problem, but I can connect successfully when booted into XP in both
encrpypted and unencrptyed set ups.
What's stranger still is that I have successfully used ndiswrapper with
this same wireless card and access point and it worked almost flawlessly
with wpa_supplicant. The only problem I had with it was that every once
in a while it would drop a connection if I let the connection sit idle
for a while yet my wireless card was reporting a successful connection.
Then I just had to run and ifdown and ifup and I would have a connection
again. Now I can't get any kind of reconnect unless I reboot.
This is all very weird if you ask me. Something is extremely buggy and
imo it points to the bcm43xx module.
I have also tried using network-manager and it makes my entire computer
extremely flaky. The touchpad will stop working once in a while, the
system will freeze occasionally, etc... whenever I attempt to use it.
And I still have the same flaky connections.
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