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wireless problem Fedora 8 and broadcom BCM4312 - anyweb - 2008-04-17


hi guys, i've Fedora 8 installed on this computer and i setup the wireless card on it yesterday by doing as follows

 

after doing that I added a new wireless connection in system-config-network and gave it an ip address of 192.168.0.3

 

i then activated it and all was cool, for a while, after an hour or so (don't know yet) all internet conectivity would die, i couldn't even ping my smoothwall (192.168.0.1)

 

note: on this same machine using a dell truemobil 1150 pcmcia card it worked 100% so maybe a broadcom firmware issue ?

 

here's what things look like when the internet dies

 

Quote:[root@localhost ~]# ping www.google.comping: unknown host www.google.com

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig wlan1

wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:CE:52:49:D0

inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::216:ceff:fe52:49d0/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:118777 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:94960 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:128962747 (122.9 MiB) TX bytes:10495169 (10.0 MiB)

 

[root@localhost ~]# ping 192.168.0.1

PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=9 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=10 Destination Host Unreachable

 

--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---

12 packets transmitted, 0 received, +6 errors, 100% packet loss, time 10998ms

, pipe 2
 

and the only way to get it up again is to go into system-config-network (neat) and de-activate/re-activate it

 

see below

 

Quote:[root@localhost ~]# service network restartShutting down interface wlan1: [ OK ]

Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]

Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig wlan1 up

[root@localhost ~]# ping 192.168.0.1

connect: Network is unreachable

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

RX packets:22378 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:22378 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:1430515 (1.3 MiB) TX bytes:1430515 (1.3 MiB)

 

wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:CE:52:49:D0

UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:118781 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:94981 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:128964027 (122.9 MiB) TX bytes:10496429 (10.0 MiB)

 

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-16-CE-52-49-D0-B8-D9-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

 

[root@localhost ~]# neat
 

any ideas why this is happening or how I can fix it ?




wireless problem Fedora 8 and broadcom BCM4312 - anyweb - 2008-05-22


fixed this by using ndiswrapper instead

 

works fine now, never disconnects.

 

cheers

anyweb