Broadcom B43 Wireless Card / Driver Issues

[Martin Marques]

John W. Linville escribió:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:53:27AM -0200, Martin Marques wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Good advice.  Alternatively you could use wpa_supplicant (whether or
> not you are using WPA encryption), or you could simply do "iwconfig
> wlan0 essid $ESSID" whenever you detect that your AP has been reset.
> 
> If you want a technical explanation...the hardware in question is
> "soft MAC" device which uses the mac80211 infrastructure in the
> kernel. 

Isn't this one of the things that are gonna get improved with the new 
driver in kernel 2.6.25?