From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@comcast.net>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: B43 randomly and silently dropping connections...
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:24:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225326282.5496.5.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081030001739.GG3485@tuxdriver.com>
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 20:17 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:10:06PM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
>
> > SHORT STORY:
> > -- Kernel 2.6.25.x with BCM43XX, firmware 4.80.53.0.. just perfect.
> >
> > -- Kernels 2.6.26 or higher with B43 and firware 4.150.10.5 good negotiations,
> > but fragile connections that drop randomly and without complaint. B43LEGACY
> > does nothing.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated. I'd really like to get this ironed out. I
> > highly desire to use current kernels.
>
> Are you running a distro kernel? Or one you have built yourself?
>
> If the latter, have you opened a bug at bugzilla.kernel.org?
> Otherwise, have you opened a bug with your distro's bug tracking
> system?
>
> Do you have wireshark captures taken with another device in monitor
> mode that show these connection drops?
>
> Are you using NetworkManager or wpa_supplicant? Or just configuring
> your connection with iwconfig? If the latter, consider the former.
> If you are using NM, does the connection get re-established
> automatically? Or is NM unable to reestablish the connection?
> Use wpa_supplicant directly if NM just doesn't work for you.
>
> It seems clear that posting the same message to the mailing lists
> again and again is not resolving the issue for you. Please perform
> the actions requested above (including opening a bug at the appropriate
> place) and collect some useable data for us.
In addition, have you tried updated firmware that was pointed to
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/22790
No idea if it will fix it or not.
Harvey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-30 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-30 0:10 B43 randomly and silently dropping connections Jerry McBride
2008-10-30 0:17 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-30 0:24 ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
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2008-10-21 1:44 Jerry McBride
2008-10-19 21:25 Jerry McBride
2008-10-17 22:36 Jerry McBride
2008-10-16 23:59 Jerry McBride
2008-10-19 12:53 ` metin
2008-10-19 16:51 ` Larry Finger
2008-10-13 23:39 Jerry McBride
2008-10-14 14:15 ` John W. Linville
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