for over a year now i have been having intermittent disconnections with my wireless card. Can someone please give me the steps to debug the hardware and/or drivers concerning this chipset?
is there an easy way to debug this card and drivers from the bootloader command line??
i understand what you’re trying to say here, but i want to help debug issues with this card, which maybe the same as other broadcom cards. please help me debug the driver bcma and the b43 driver.
after a while, i always get this issue:
jshand@johns-pc:~> ping 192.168.20.1
PING 192.168.20.1 (192.168.20.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=8 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=9 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=10 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=11 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=12 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=13 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=14 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=15 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=16 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=17 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=18 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=19 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=20 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=21 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=22 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=23 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=24 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=25 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=26 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=27 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=28 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=29 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=30 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.20.3 icmp_seq=31 Destination Host Unreachable
this is extremely frustrating when you’re busy on the net
i don’t want to be using a closed source driver in anything.
As far as I know, that indicates an “arp” failure. That is, it indicates a failure to find the MAC address of a system on the LAN answering to 192.168.20.1
In more detail: when an unreachable is for a different network, then it is a routing problem. When an unreachable is for the local network, it is a LAN problem. Other unix varieties may give a timeout error rather than an unreachable error in this case.