I had the same problem on an old laptop recently.
I had to blacklist hostap, hostap_cs drivers. Now I show one device and its
working well again.
If you need more instruction I'll post them when I get to the shop and find
my notes.

Ben



On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> I am running a ppc mac mini with the broadcom chip (bcm4306); am running
> debian unstable with kernel 2.6.26-1; have just updated with apt-get
> hoping this would ix the problem but it didn't. My wireless suddenly
> stopped working--using airport extreme--but still works fine on the mac
> side of the computer. /var/log/messages shows all the broadcom components
> being loaded but shows link not ready when brought up. cat /proc/net/dev
> shows wlan0_rename (also a eth1) but all zeros. The relevant part of lspci
> -knn shows:
>
> 0001:10:12.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306
> 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03)
>        Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
>        Kernel modules: ssb
>
> I did make the firmware changes as instructed with the 2.6.25 kernel
> and this problem didn't occur when I changed to 2.6.26.
> Has anybody had
> this happen and are there other tests I should run or other
> logs in which I need to look to find out wt is wrong?
>
> tia.
>
>
>
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>
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> there will your heart be also."
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