Rafał Miłecki wrote: > Hello everyone :-) > > I would like to report a problem with connecting to network using > bcm43xx module. It is quite hard to connect because I usualy receive > an error from KNetworkManager: "Could not connect to the network > zajec_linksys". > > I have to try again, and again... After a few times it connects and > then it works perfect. Speed is OK, and connection is stable - I can > be connected for hours. > > I wonder if there is something you could do to improve connecting? I made a > tail -f /var/log/messages > zajec.bcm43xx.log > when trying to connect. > > Software/hardware I use: > > lspci -v: > 06:05.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One > 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) > Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Aspire 3022WLMi, 5024WLMi > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21 > Memory at c0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] > > uname -r: > 2.6.21-rc5-14-default
I also use openSUSE 10.2 and tried to load the kernel that you are using, but I got an RPM conflict with a couple of apparmor components. I chose not to try to fix those. There are a couple of patches that did not make it into 2.6.21-rc5 (and will not be in 2.6.21) that help the 4318. You can find them at ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/combined_2.6.21-rc5.patch. Using them will require rebuilding your kernel from either the openSUSE or kernel.org kernels. Of course, kernels from kernel.org do not have the openSUSE patches; however, they work just fine. You won't be using apparmor and will get some messages about missing IOCTL's, but otherwise they are OK. You can ignore the kernel messages about illegal lo pairs. They indicate a non-fatal problem with the driver, but it still works for me on my 4318. Mine is a PCMCIA card with the same revision as yours. It associates and authenticates every time on the first try using NM. When you are inquiring about a problem with connecting, the output of iwconfig is also useful. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
