Broadcom Wireless Slow To Connect

JamieKitson · 2011-02-04 11:05:55

Hi,

My wireless (a Broadcom BCM4313) has always been a little slow to connect (in Linux at least), but now that I have the boot time down to about 15 seconds it's really noticeable, as I have to wait another 10 - 20 seconds or so for the wireless interface to come up. I have several options/questions that I wondered if a knowledgeable person could comment on:

* Are Broadcom chipsets particularly slow to connect? (I am using the new brcm80211 kernel driver, I have also used the Broadcom-wl driver which didn't seem any different.) I have a spare Intel card which I can try, but unfortunately it's not very easy to swap them in my laptop, so I will only try this as a last resort.
* Am I being unrealistic? Will all wireless connections take this long to connect?
* Would a static IP help? I forgot to try this last night, will try tonight.
* Could changing the protocol help? At the moment our router is running a mixed network, could changing to just g or n help?

Thanks, Jamie

ViruSzZ · 2011-02-04 19:43:21

I have the same wireless card in my notebook and I`m using 2.6.37 with the brcm80211 driver and it connects pretty fast [ ~5-8 sec ] using wicd. Also, it gets an IP via dhcp (not static).

I do not have any other ideas why it takes that much.

Peace, out

JamieKitson · 2011-02-06 19:28:01

Thanks for your reply, mine's taking about 12-15 seconds with DHCP and about 8 seconds with a static ip.

JamieKitson · 2011-05-14 17:44:23

I finally got around to looking at this recently and it turns out that it's netcfg that is slow. I wrote a simple script to bring up wpa_supplicant and dhcp, put it in rc.d and added it to the DEAMONS line in rc.conf.

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Broadcom Wireless Slow To Connect

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