Re: Help with bcm43xx

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

Here was my answer earlier:

There have been a number of posts here with people having problems
with the BCM43xx drivers.  If you search ubuntuforums.org there are a
number of threads on it and some suggested solutions that you can try
on Gentoo.  When I get some free time I will try and put all the
various solutions down in one place.  If/when you find a solution it
would be great if you could post it here.

Also, I missed the part about running it from a console.  To do this
stop NetworkManager and then run from a terminal:
NetworkManager --no-daemon.



On 6/16/06, Nix N. Nix <nix go-nix ca> wrote:
> Sorry if this is a dupe: The previous copy doesn't seem to have appeared
> on the list.
>
> Hi!
>
> I am using NetworkManager 0.6.3 via Gentoo's Gentopia portage tree on a
> ppc iBook G4 with a "Broadcom 4306" on kernel 2.6.17-rc4. I still can't
> connect to any wireless network using NetworkManager, despite the fact
> that it works when I do it manually.
>
> I must confess that NM has, once, managed to connect to an open wireless
> network I had previously connected to manually - or so it thought. It
> told me I was connected wirelessly, however, I couldn't browse any Web
> site, whereas, when connecting to the same AP manually, I could browse
> any Web site I chose.
>
> Are there any specific steps I must follow to make NM work with my
> wireless card ?
>
> Can NetworkManager be configured to use external scripts to accomplish
> its tasks ? I would like to precede the action of attempting to connect
> to a wireless network with a
>
> modprobe -r bcm43xx ; modprobe bcm43xx
>
> pair. This seems to work when I attempt to manually establish a wireless
> connection.
>
> Also, sometimes bcm43xx shuts down the interface right after dhclient
> completes successfully. Weird behaviour, I know, but that, as they say,
> is that.
>
> Is there a way to run NetworkManager/nm-applet in a console and with
> verbose output ? I would like to be able to see all the things it's
> doing and when it's doing them.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help !
>
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