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ADI64

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Registered: 2008-12-08

Posts: 13

b43legacy - good link quality, but connections are dying...

Heyho,

//Edit: If this is the wrong area, please move the topic. I think it belongs here because it's a hardware issue with a driver included in the kernel...

I'm using a Belkin F5D7000 PCI wlan device with chipset bcm4306 and driver b43legacy.
My wireless connection is established via a normal router with WEP encryption (No need to tell me this is insecure )
Connection and Internet works fine (although it's a bit slow), but after a while, the connection drops and dhcpd doesn't reconnect.
dmesg | tail gives me something like that:

b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
__ratelimit: X [[goes from 2 up to more than 200]] callbacks suppressed
b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error

and so on.

What is going on here?
Why does he have like hundreds of transmission errors and a bunch of suppressed callbacks?
My link quality is quite good, WindowsXP (dual-boot, so it's using the exact same hardware) got 4/5 or 5/5 connectivity bars.

If I want to reconnect, I have to do something like this:

ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid MYESSID
iwconfig wlan0 enc s:MYPASSWORD
dhcpd wlan0

Otherwise it won't work.

The bcm4306 chipset isn't supported by the new b43 driver, and the bcm43xx driver isn't included in the kernel anymore.

Downloading packages this way is a real pain in the ass
Anyone got an idea what is going on here or what I can do to solve it?

Thanks for your help,
ADI64

Last edited by ADI64 (2008-12-08 17:22:46)

ADI64

Member

Registered: 2008-12-08

Posts: 13

Re: b43legacy - good link quality, but connections are dying...

Okay, I somehow solved it with ndiswrapper.
My problem was finding a working bcm4306 64bit Driver, but now I got a stable connection with fullspeed
But I'm still interested in a bugfix for this, because ndiswrapper is only some kind of workaround...
For anyone having the same problem or having troubles finding a Broadcom 4306 Firmware in 64bit, take a look at http://www.64bitjungle.com/tag/broadcom/