Folks,
I have a Macbook Pro with a Broadcom card (sigh) that worked fine once I’d first installed brodcom-wl, but on reboot and when I wake up from sleep, it cannot see my SSID. I can, bizarrely, manually type it in and enter its password so it connects, then it shows multiple instances of my SSID (!) and it’s working. Anyone seen this before or able to help track it down? If there’s any info I can supply, please let me know!
Many thanks.
On 01/29/2013 05:26 AM, DiBosco wrote:
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> Folks,
>
> I have a Macbook Pro with a Broadcom card (sigh) that worked fine once
> I’d first installed brodcom-wl, but on reboot and when I wake up from
> sleep, it cannot see my SSID. I can, bizarrely, manually type it in and
> enter its password so it connects, then it shows multiple instances of
> my SSID (!) and it’s working. Anyone seen this before or able to help
> track it down? If there’s any info I can supply, please let me know!
Note: If you use Broadcom-wl, you are using a closed-source driver. As we have
no idea what is contained in that code, there is little we can do. When there
are problems in seeing the results of scanning when using KDE, disabling and
re-enabling wireless in the applet usually restores the list. If you are using
Gnome, I have no idea what to do.
What’s the alternative to using broadcom-wl please? I thought Broadcom had gone open source?
I am using KDE.
Broadcom use a number of wireless chipsets. Tell us which device you have:
/sbin/lspci -nn |grep Broadcom
On 01/29/2013 12:16 PM, DiBosco wrote:
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> What’s the alternative to using broadcom-wl please? I thought Broadcom
> had gone open source?
There are a number of Broadcom devices that use the open-source drivers brcmsmac
and brcmfmac written by people from Broadcom; however, wl is not open, and
AKAIK, it will never be.
I don’t know why, but it’s started working. I’ve suspended a few times and it seems to work nicely. I must say, it comes out of suspend very quickly; the wi-fi takes ten seconds or more longer to come up than the screen, but it’s much faster than the previous distribution I used on it.
On 01/29/2013 05:36 PM, DiBosco wrote:
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> I don’t know why, but it’s started working. I’ve suspended a few times
> and it seems to work nicely. I must say, it comes out of suspend very
> quickly; the wi-fi takes ten seconds or more longer to come up than the
> screen, but it’s -much- faster than the previous distribution I used on
> it.
The wifi time is what it takes to scan the network (~2 sec), and perform the
authentication and association process. Some APs are faster than others, but if
you want nearly instant reconnection after suspension, then use a wire.