On 01/25/2010 01:44 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, ALL, > I have a Dell Laptop which has a Broadcom wireless device in it. > It is a dual-boot system with Windows XP/Gentoo. > > This is the result of lspci: > 0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev > 01) > > This is the system name: > IgorsGentooOnNetwork buildGTK # uname -a > Linux IgorsGentooOnNetwork 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 #5 SMP Sun Oct 4 22:43:50 PDT > 2009 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T1350 @ 1.86GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > > When I boot in XP everything works perfect. > When I then boot in Gentoo then, I can't get an IP right away. > > Asking about it on Gentoo forum, I got a responce that I should turn off the > router for 30 seconds and then everything will work. > > The router is using the WPA2 encryption and I am using wpa_supplicant. > > Is this a problem with just the b43 driver or something on the lower level? > Is this at least known problem?
No, it is not a known problem. The NM mailing list has had some traffic about DHCP timeouts on busy networks where the DHCP lease time is 1 day, thus the AP has to probe to find an unused IP, but that should not apply to you. On the other hand, if turning off the router does change the situation, you might try changing the lease time there. I use WPA2 on my network with b43 and NetworkManager. My network does not start until I login, but an IP is always available within 15-20 seconds of the time that my desktop is ready. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
