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Hi everyone.
First of all I hope I am in the right forum (I wasn't really sure if this belongs to Kernel & Hardware or Laptop Issues instead).
I am running Arch on a Macbook Air with the Broadcom BCM43224 wifi chipset, and so far wireless has been a really disappointing experience.
Both brcmsmac and b43 have been absolutely unusable because of connection failures all the time when I am not in immediate proximity of the WLAN-router.
Broadcom-wl is much better but still gets me connection failures a lot. (Other drivers are blacklisted properly.)
I can reduce the frequency of connection failures by pinging the router (or any other IP) a couple times a second. Which made me think it's an issue with power management but iwconfig reports it being disabled.
Even with pinging I still have the issues every now and then so it doesn't really feel like a good solution (also I think it probably drains unescessary battery power). Other devices work perfectly fine at the ranges from the router I have issues on the laptop now (and I didn't have them on OS X either...)...
I hope someone has an idea how to troubleshoot this issue. (Or is this simply the state of this chip's driver support in Linux?) Otherwise I will probably get myself a good usb dongle (but that feels kind of silly knowing there is a wifi chip inside the laptop).
Kind regards.
Edit: I think I resolved the issue by setting the correct region code (as described in the wiki). I can't believe I didn't think about this earlier. I can't delete this post but maybe it's helpful for someone anyway so I'll leave it here.
Last edited by evotopid (2016-02-13 15:56:46)
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