[Bug 583564] Re: Broadcom drivers unusable on Dell Mini 10v

2010-09-22 Thread Jeremy Foshee
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[Bug 583564] Re: Broadcom drivers unusable on Dell Mini 10v

2010-05-24 Thread Jeremy Foshee
Hi chicken159,

Please be sure to confirm this issue exists with the latest development release 
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[Bug 583564] Re: Broadcom drivers unusable on Dell Mini 10v

2010-05-21 Thread Ian Fleming
Hey chicken

currently the BCM4322 is unsupported by the open source b43 driver. The
proprietary STA/Hybrid is the one.

Can you confirm you chipset please, in a terminal typelspci -vvnn |
grep 14e4  .

I have a mini 10v myself and driver is good, some months ago it had some
issues holding a connection but this is no longer the case. Is you
system completely updated?

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[Bug 583564] Re: Broadcom drivers unusable on Dell Mini 10v

2010-05-21 Thread chicken159
Hi, 
To confirm the chipset:

09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M 
Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1673] (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g 
[14e4:4312] (rev 01)

I am aware the b43 driver is not currently usable; my problem and that of a 
number of others, is that the STA driver provides a flaky-at-best, VERY slow 
connection. Whether this is just the driver, or something somewhere else in the 
stack, I have not been able to tell - but the symptoms are:
1. On the STA driver
When using firefox: any page starts loading, but slowly, then usually hangs 
'waiting for www...'. Soemtimes a click on reload works. Sometimes opening 
another tab and trying a different site works. Mostly though it doesn't and the 
loading page just hangs.

Update manager exhibits the same - starts to download but stops, waits
and times out.

2. Using any other form of networking - 3G dongle / wired / USB wireless
dongle - networking is fine.

3. Running Snow-Leopard on the same machine is just fine so suspect that
rules out hardware issues.

This is normally on my home network with WPA, but also exhibited on un-
secured networks at work and in hotels.

I am running a clean install of bog-standard 10.04 desktop. (About the
3rd wipe and reinstall I've done trying to fix/solve this).

Any chance that b43 will support this anytime soon? (without going down
the newer kernel route?).

Any suggestions welcome!

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[Bug 583564] Re: Broadcom drivers unusable on Dell Mini 10v

2010-05-21 Thread Ian Fleming
Hey...

Whats bog-standard? iI got the standard part.. = )

It appears only 2.4GHz 802.11g is supported by b43driver on bcm4312, you
card can handle 802.11a and 802.11b aswell but not with b43 [1].

Should be fully supported soon, youd think so, maybe when 2.6.33 is
released.

b43/STA hybrid should be ok and provide full functionality.

My miniV is getting on now its got bcm4322. I have no idea who/why the
models are chosen/different.

I agree its a show starter/show stopper.

Maybe look into possible conflicts between you broadcom ethernet and
wireless cards involving ssb, I think i read something somewhere that
was along those lines. from what i remember there was a work
around?


[1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

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[Bug 583564] Re: Broadcom drivers unusable on Dell Mini 10v

2010-05-21 Thread Ian Fleming
forget that the ssb thing, that was a bluetooth issue with STA.

Maybe try ubuntu moblin remix, it helped during the period the sta
driver was giving me grief, which is no longer the case.

Go figure..

Good luck.

Oh yeah what version of ubuntu are you using. Have you tried to  boot a
live[1] lucid 10.04?  results?

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

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[Bug 583564] Re: Broadcom drivers unusable on Dell Mini 10v

2010-05-21 Thread Ian Fleming
bog-standard.. ugh!

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[Bug 583564] Re: Broadcom drivers unusable on Dell Mini 10v

2010-05-21 Thread chicken159
HI,

Haha - ok so maybe the bog was superfluous!

Re. b43 (though I don't want to divert onto that issue here) - the
combination of bcm4312, 2.6.32 and the Dell Mini 10v does not work at
all - something to do with low power architecture. I'm led to believe it
works with 2.6.33 and did start down the route of getting the new
kernel...until I broke something and gave up. The workaround suggested
to disable DMA also does not seem to work with this setup. So we're
stuck on STA.

As to STA - there really is a problem, and I've been rather chaotically
trawling forums and trying solutions for a couple of months. I'm afraid
I've reached the end of my technical knowledge here, and for
productivity purposes the time available means its easier for me to just
carry a second wireless dongle and forget about it.

But I do keep seeing other people with the same problem and no
solutionits like wandering around in the fog of broadcom related
frustrations bumping into other lost people! Just struck me as pretty
bad to have a non-functional netbook that I bought with Ubuntu pre-
installedalbeit a hobbled Dell version that I immediately replaced.
I'll see where I get following your suggestions...

Cheers

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