Re: Broadcom TG3 network drops, cannot recover without reboot
On Wednesday 14 October 2015 12:04:27 Toan Pham wrote:
> Justin,
>
> Have you found a solution to the NIC issue yet?
>
> FYI, I was working with Broadcom's test team but they pretty much
> dropped the ball on me.... So it is all up to us to find a solution!
> Please share if you know how to get the NIC not to drop out
> intermitently.
>
> thank you,
>
> TP
From my lengthy but 100% failed experinces with BC, including hacking up
the ndiswrapper to use the winderz drivers, you would be far better off
to vote with your wallet and change the brand name on the card. On my
old HP lappy, which had XP on it as OEM, and a broadcom 4318 radio in
it, one that would not connect for more than 15 seconds when running XP,
so I plugged in a netgear USB radio, rebooted, and it just worked(tm).
But I've upgraded the lappy to an XFCE vesion of Mint 17 now, and I've
shut the wired relay router's radio off in the shop because a neighbor
had managed the passphrase & was using my bandwidth. Shut it off hard by
replacing the router with a small 4 port hub. :) They can't use what
isn't available.
I still don't think I have any neighbors that close AND that smart, but
it happened. They could not get to me, but they could get to the
internet thru it as it had access to the gateway router. That one is
running dd-wrt, and the only one who has come thru it, I had to give him
the username & pw. I used to watch the logs, but that was a boring waste
of time. Nothing unwanted gets thru dd-wrt.
YMMV of course, but some folks enjoy the challenge of trying to make
broken by design stuff work. I do too, but there is a point too far
that you can easily surpass with BC gear.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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