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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
