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Snowknight

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Wireless Reconnection Issue (broadcom-wl)

I installed the broadcom-wl driver from the AUR to use the wireless chip in a Dell Inspiron 1525, and I have a strange issue now. When I boot the machine, I can connect to one of the building's two WEP-encrypted networks (yes, I know they should change to a different encryption standard). If I disconnect or need to switch to the other AP, dhcpcd seems to fail. I'm using wicd to connect to the network. It throws "could not get an IP address" when I try to reconnect. The only solution is to reboot the machine—I even tried unloading all the associated network modules (lib80211_crypt_tkip and wl), restarting wicd, and prowling for any remaining instances of dhcpcd. What can I do to fix this?

Here is some information that might help:

$ lspci -vnn | grep 'Broadcom'
0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

wicd.log during a reconnection attempt:

2010/11/18 11:43:17 :: Attempting to authenticate...
2010/11/18 11:43:17 :: ['wpa_supplicant', '-B', '-i', 'eth0', '-c', '/var/lib/wicd/configurations/0024c8835230', '-D', 'wext']
2010/11/18 11:43:17 :: ['iwconfig', 'eth0', 'essid', '<essid>']
2010/11/18 11:43:17 :: iwconfig eth0 channel 8
2010/11/18 11:43:17 :: iwconfig eth0 ap 00:24:C8:83:52:30
2010/11/18 11:43:17 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS DISCONNECTED
2010/11/18 11:43:18 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS COMPLETED
2010/11/18 11:43:18 :: Running DHCP with hostname thopkins
2010/11/18 11:43:18 :: /sbin/dhcpcd eth0 
2010/11/18 11:43:18 :: dhcpcd[4732]: version 5.2.8 starting
2010/11/18 11:43:18 :: 
2010/11/18 11:43:18 :: dhcpcd[4732]: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
2010/11/18 11:43:18 :: 
2010/11/18 11:43:41 :: found backend in configuration external
2010/11/18 11:43:48 :: dhcpcd[4732]: timed out

errors.log from around the same time:

Nov 18 11:42:44 localhost dhcpcd[4591]: dhcpcd not running
Nov 18 11:42:44 localhost dhcpcd[4597]: dhcpcd not running
Nov 18 11:42:44 localhost dhcpcd[4604]: dhcpcd not running
Nov 18 11:43:10 localhost dhcpcd[4697]: dhcpcd not running
Nov 18 11:43:15 localhost dhcpcd[4706]: dhcpcd not running
Nov 18 11:43:15 localhost dhcpcd[4712]: dhcpcd not running
Nov 18 11:43:15 localhost dhcpcd[4719]: dhcpcd not running
Nov 18 11:43:48 localhost dhcpcd[4732]: timed out
Nov 18 11:43:48 localhost dhcpcd[4743]: dhcpcd not running
Nov 18 11:43:48 localhost dhcpcd[4749]: dhcpcd not running
Nov 18 11:45:24 localhost dhcpcd[4615]: dhcpcd not running
Nov 18 11:45:24 localhost dhcpcd[4621]: dhcpcd not running
Nov 18 11:45:24 localhost dhcpcd[4628]: dhcpcd not running

Let me know if you want to see anything else to diagnose this.

Last edited by Snowknight (2010-11-18 18:47:28)

Snowknight

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Re: Wireless Reconnection Issue (broadcom-wl)

Erp. Wrong forum. That's what I get for opening too many tabs. Can someone move this to where it should go?

Snowknight

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Re: Wireless Reconnection Issue (broadcom-wl)

Improper forum aside, I do not have this issue with networkmanager. I'll poke around a bit later and see if I should report a bug somewhere. I would mark this as solved, but it's not really solved as much as allayed.

Last edited by Snowknight (2010-11-20 01:47:11)