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ILoveJapaneseGirls

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Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 72

Wireless does not hold connection with b43 driver!

Hi everybody!!

It's my first time here in the forum, so nice to meet you.

I have a laptop Acer Aspire 3050 and I recently formatted it to install the new Arch 2009.08.

It's pretty cool, but I can't make my wireless card (Broadcom BCM4318) work with b43 driver. It worked very well with Arch 2009.02, but now it's a pain!

It recognizes the driver, loads it and connect with no problems, but when I ping my desktop machine, it says that unfortunate message "Destination Host Unreachable"

It sometimes works when I do these commands about 5 or 10 times:

./connect
ping 192.168.0.1 >>> Destination Host Unreachable
ifconfig wlan0 down
rmmod b43
/etc/rc.d/network restart
modprobe b43
./connect

[... many more times]

but even when it does connect, it usually can't hold the connection for more than 15 or 20 minutes. And I have to do it all again.

Hear goes some info on configuration files so it may help you:

lspci -vk

08:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
    Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. TravelMate 2410
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
    Memory at d0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
    Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
    Kernel modules: ssb

lsmod | grep "b43"

b43                   137208  0 
mac80211              155532  1 b43
cfg80211               90428  2 b43,mac80211
ssb                    45988  1 b43
pcmcia                 36168  2 b43,ssb
pcmcia_core            35184  5 b43,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic,ssb,pcmcia
led_class               4000  3 b43,sdhci,acer_wmi

/etc/rc.conf

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(!b43 !ndiswrapper)

...

#Static IP example
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
#eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=()

...

gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

...

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond hal)

I've already tried many different configurations in rc.conf, but it still does not estabilish a connection in the first try.

I'm using the driver from the wiki (http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broa … .5.tar.bz2) and did not try with only ndiswrapper. It's because I want to have all functionalities from criptography and... after all, it was supposed to work, wasn't it?

Where could be the problem? The driver version? Or bad configuration?

Thanks in advance!! If you need more information, please ask.