Unstable wireless network connection

skipperx · 08-22-2009, 09:59 AM

Hi Everyone:

Since installing Debian, my keep losing my wireless connection intermittently. Whenever I lose it, I have to reboot and it is OK again for a while. Otherwise, it works OK. Any advise to make it more stable would be much appreciated. I have used linux for a couple of years only.

Thank you.

jim_p · 08-23-2009, 01:39 AM

What wireless card are you on?

Code:

lspci | grep Wireless

Do you use network manager or wicd or other "network administration layers"?

skipperx · 08-25-2009, 06:06 AM

Here is part of the output for the wireless card from lspci

Code:

02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 [AirForce 54g] 802.11a/b/g PCI Express Transceiver (rev 02)

It didn't work out of the box for linux. I had to use b43-fwcutter
to make it work.

I am using the normal network manager from Gnome, I mean the one that comes with it.

tkmsr · 04-28-2010, 06:18 AM

Use wicd.

jim_p · 04-28-2010, 08:18 AM

If you are on testing or unstable, you can also try wl, broadcom's closed source driver.

http://packages.debian.org/sid/broadcom-sta-source

You will need to blacklist b43, and probably ssb too, and it may set your wireless interface to eth1 instead of wlan0.