Wireless went flaky !

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri Feb 2 19:19:57 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 12:15 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> I've been using wireless on my laptop for 2 years.  I used to use
> ndiswrapper.  For the last few months I've been using bcm43xx.  
> 
> The other night I was working away, listening to an Internet radio
> broadcast when my wireless connection quit.  I can't remember if I
> installed any updates that day or not.  
> 
> Ever since then my wireless connection has been flaky.  Sometimes it
> works, sometimes it doesn't.  
> 
> Did something change software wise recently ?
> 
> Is it time to install ndiswrapper again ?

I would.  I've never been impressed by bcm43xx.  It's never worked well
for me on my Broadcom BCM4318.  I just stick with ndiswrapper.  Never
farking fails.

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