Re: bcm43xx support in Debian etch

["Damon L. Chesser" <damon@damtek.com>]

Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 1. Oktober 2006 21:42 schrieb Damon L. Chesser:
> > > I to, have seen this issue.  I did not pursue it as it was a total
> > > surprise to me to even seen it work at all!  I just kept using my 
> > > pcmcia
> > > Proxim Gold card.  I look forward to following this thread.
> >
> > Damon,
> >
> > why have you been surprised to see that this work (to a large extend 
> > at least)? The bcm43xx driver is in the mainline kernel and this made 
> > me expecting it to be a pretty robust driver. But obviously you knew 
> > better.... Anyways would be nice to see sarge shipping with good 
> > suport for this chip.
> >
> > And I should mention, the driver at least does not crash the system....
>
> how does it work with `ifplugd' ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jerome
>
> > Thanks,
> > Rainer

Jerome,

This issue he described is where you get dhclient running, but no reply 
is ever detected.  It will not matter if you run ifup, manually run 
dhclient, use etherconf ifplugd (which just calls dhclient when detected 
wifi comes on line, or your wired is unplug, what ever).  The problem is 
the stack.  Ping will come back with no reply.  The device is NOT 
working even though you get ifconfig and manually set net subnet, 
gateway, ip, all that.  Radio indicates it is on, lights all work, just 
no network traffic. 

At least that is MY experience, I am sure Rainer can add more if that 
does not fit his experience.

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Damon L. Chesser
damon@damtek.com
damon@okfairtax.org