I have been running Suse 9.2 with the Linuxant Broadcom driver for the past 2 years, with not difficulty. R3420ca, athlon 64.
Last week I upgraded my ram (replaced the "second" slot 256m with a 1gb) to 1.2gb total. Now, when I turn the machine on the wireless will not run. Initially, when the boot advances to the network setup, the loopback and eth0 are set up fine, then when the wlan0 appears, the computer either freezes, or runs VERY slowly. If I press the wireless button, the computer resumes. Once the machine is booted, and I do the "iwlist scan", there is a "failed to read data" message. I can go to the linuxant driver web tool, and it states that the driver is loaded and working. twice I have succeeded in getting the wireless running, by a random combination of reinstalling the linuxant driver, pressing the switch on/off, reinstalling using Yast, and rcnetwork restart. However, I cannot replicate the sequence of events. The wireless works fine under windows. When I put the original 256m RAM stick back, the machine works fine, put the 1gb back, and it doesn't Any thoughts? -- Jeffrey Michael Franc-Law, MD, CCFP.EM, D Sport Med, EMDM Candidate Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta Disaster Plan Coordinator, Dept of Emergency Med, University of Alberta Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone (Canada): 780-266-9653 Phone (Italy): +011 39 339 3901362 Fax: 780-437-9673 SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
