Broadcom B43 Wireless Card / Driver Issues

Martin Marques martin at marquesminen.com.ar
Tue Jan 29 11:53:27 UTC 2008


Manish Kathuria escribió:
> I am using Fedora 8 x86_64 (kernel 2.6.23.14-107) on my Dell Vostro
> laptop which has a Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wireless mini PCI
> lan device which has been automatically detected and uses the b43
> wireless driver.
> 
> I have configured the wireless device wlan0 using a static IP address
> and have provided the ESSID, CHANNEL, MODE, RATE settings. The
> wireless device comes up and gets associated with the  Access Point /
> Wireless Router when the system is started. However if the wireless
> router is restarted the wireless device on the laptop fails to
> associate with it again and I have to restart the network service in
> order to connect to it. If I remember correctly, the Intel Centrino
> ipw2200 device on my older laptop never had this problem and nor does
> a PCI wireless card (Realtek 8180) which I have configured using
> ndiswrapper. What could be the reason for this problem ? Any tips or
> suggestions ?

Use NetworkManager.




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