On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 00:03 +0000, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Bizarrely, the interface seems to lose power or something every 1-2 > minutes. Not my connection to the AP - this is a lower level, it > happens even if I'm running airodump-ng. All of a sudden I just see > nothing. Only way to fix it is to rmmod and then modprobe bcm43xx
Ok, after playing around a lot with the wireless on my notebook (Broacom 4318) I realised the above problem is not the bcm43xx driver, but NetworkManager. I'm not sure what it does, I can only imagine it scans for networks at regular intervals when it's not connected and somehow resets the card/driver. If I associate the card with an accesspoint using iwconfig and then do dhclient eth0, it picks up an address almost immediately, and works stably. But getting it to connect through NetworkManager is a pain. I have to keep retrying, and eventually (sometimes afer 20 or more tries) it will finally connect and work properly. Is anybody experiencing the same problem? Do note I'm rathe far from the AP, NetworkManager shows 4 bars. If I put up an AP in the same room it connects much quicker. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
