I have been struggling with my wireless since FC 5. Although on a
comparatively rare hardware (Apple ibook - ppc), problems were similar
to those reported by users with a different architecture. I have tried
the old-style driver (bcm43xx) as well as the new-style one
(bcm43xx_mac80211). After a lot of reading, some reports to bugzilla
(which turned out to be quite responsive and helpful, btw), and long and
sometimes frustrating experimentation, I got both drivers to associate
somehow, but eventually I stuck with the old one which seemed to be more
reliable and gave me a stable connection with WPA encryption.
Whenever a new kernel comes up (and when I have some spare time) I give
the new driver another try. Now, today we have 2.6.22.4-65 (Sunday
afternoon), so I fired up the new driver again (won't give you the
details now how I did the change) which is now called b43, but the name
is aliased to bcm43xx_mac8021.
Now to my problem: I can activate the device with the new driver, run
wpa_supplicant to associate to my access point, get an ip address with
dhclient, and iwconfig tells me that there is a connection established
with a speed of 54 Mbits/s, but - I can't get to the Internet. Pings are
extremely slow, when trying to go to a web site the browser tells me
that it is performing a look up but it ends up in an error (can't connect).
So what's going on there? There seems to be nothing wrong in the output
of dmesg, ifconfig, iwconfig ...
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