Hi,
My previous rock-solid wireless connection has been dropping out over the last few days and cannot be used reliable at all now. dmesg shows the following error message:
Code:
wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:14:7f:8b:b2:dd
wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled - disassociate
wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:14:7f:8b:b2:dd
wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled - disassociate
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with AP 00:14:7f:8b:b2:dd
wlan0: mismatch in privacy configuration and mixed-cell disabled - abort association
wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled - disassociate
b44: eth0: powering down PHY
wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled - disassociate
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled - disassociate
b44: eth0: powering down PHY
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
The pain of it is that is was previously so reliable. The card is a broadcom:
Code:
root@skamandros/home/andrew# lspci | grep -i broadcom
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)
and is running on b43 firmware from slackbuilds.org. I would be grateful for any insight into this problem
Andrew
