[plug] More Wireless Woes

William Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Wed Apr 11 06:41:26 WST 2007


driver? - try a newer kernel?

also this seems relevant to your problems - see the scripts at end of
document about connecting
"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Dapper"

Overall, the kernal drivers seem a bit "problematic", at least in
earlier kernel versions according to google ...

BillK

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 08:00 +1000, Timothy White wrote:
> Ok, so using network manager under Ubuntu, I was finally able to
> connect to one of the WEP networks I work in, but strangly, after
> recieving maybe 40-70 packets, I stop recieving more. I had noticed in
> Kismet that the Beacon rate was really high, so I don't know if that
> has anything to do with it. Under windows, it all works fine. I'm
> currently using the bcm43xx driver, so I'm going to try ndiswrapper
> and see if that makes a difference. It's just really odd, sometimes
> after recieving 1 packet under Linux, it stops working, sometimes it's
> after 70, but it just stops dead. :(
> 
> Any Ideas??
> 
> Tim
> 
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