Broadcom wireless BCM4306 keeps dropping connection
On FC14 this wireless card keeps dropping the internet connection.
Trying to re-connect fails. The only way to re-connect is to reboot. I'm running a dual boot system with XP installed. In Windows everything works fine. Is there a way to configure the card in linux? Can I use the Windows drivers? Here is the outputs from lspci and iwconfig: lspci: 00:0c.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) iwconfig: wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"FastFish" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 20:AA:4B:29:76:F8 Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off Link Quality=49/70 Signal level=-61 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Any help would be appreciated, this is driving me nuts!! |
What driver do you use, b43? Do you install firmware for b43?
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Fedora 14 recognized the wifi card and installed its own drivers and firmware.
b43 drivers. Windoze uses the BCMWL5.sys drivers which are a lot better, no drop outs in windoze. Anyway to extract the drivers from that windoze file??? |
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