Steven Haigh schrieb:
Quoting James <jdickson@xxxxxxxxxx>:
Thanks.. I would love to use the bcm43xx module but it is flaky at best
on my Dell Latitude D800.. ndiswrapper works really well.
I have the same on my Inspiron 8600. The rest of the machine works
I'll probably find some time at the weekend to finally file bug-reports
related to bcm43xx.
Strangely engough the only three people reporting problems related to
bcm43xx are all running Dell-laptops, so I wonder whether that might be
related.
I'd be happy if I could get some reports regarding bcm43xx so I can
perhaps include them when doing bug-reports. So I'd like to ask all
users running bcm43xx and Dell-laptops to send me some information
off-list, at least product-name and "works", "doesn't work", but of
course it would be better with additional information like lspci-output.
But of course, every other reports on hardware using bcm43xx will be
very welcome, too. ;-)
The problems I've seen so far:
- crash when starting NetworkManager
- crash when using NetworkManager to connect to a wlan
- crash when using wpa_supplicant to connect to a wlan
- crashes when being connected to my lan and not using wlan at all (last
syslog-messages are related to some reinitialisation of the bcm43xx-module)
Finally I'd like to point out...
- I first tried bcm43xx when it was experimental and not included in the
standard-kernel
- Stability on my laptop has not improved, so I had no reason to
consider it anything but experimental. I have not realized that
others had more success running that driver.
- bcm43xx seems to change with every new fedora-kernel so I believed
"someone is currently working at bcm43xx, so they know there are
problems". That's why I did not file bug-reports regarding my problems.
- I do run the official Dell-firmware for my Precision M60 in Europe.
This is a firmware which the bcm43xx-fwcutter-Readme approves as being
successfully tested.
- I currently keep the last six fedora-kernels installed and so far at
least one of them has always been able to successfully run start-up,
while most lock up when starting NetworkManager and
NetworkManagerDispatcher.
--
CU,
Patrick.
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