Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
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.
Well FWIW Klaus I have very similar problems. I currently have F7 installed on a PowerBook G4 but I'm using the 2.6.20 kernel from FC6, ie the old driver and I'm also using WPA. For me the old driver with the V3 firmware just works, no problems. Any newer kernel requiring using the new driver and V4 firmware is problematic. It is setup correctly, associates all that sort of stuff but I get lots of packet loss, connection drop-outs etc. Often the Powerbook G4 just simply locks up solid. So I think it simply isn't stable enough yet. Interestingly I also have a PC laptop with a wireless NIC plugged into the PC card slot. The chipset is identical to the chipset in the powerbook (Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)) and it behaves identically, despite being a different architecture. So I also have the 2.6.20 kernel from FC6 in use on that. So I think your efforts might be in vain but of course if you do get it working, please post your efforts :-)
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