G'day and Happy New Year,
I am having some issues with my bcm43xx on my Gateway mx6421 x86_64 laptop. When using ndiswrappers and no encryption, the laptop would reconnect on each boot and was quite reliable (except for when the linksys wrk54G would lockup, a real piece of junk). When I turned on 128bit WEP and moved to the bcm43xx driver, things are different. I power up the laptop and the network does not come up (can't ping the wireless gateway). If I start kwifimanager and restart networking (/sbin/service network restart) is usually comes up (sometimes takes a couple of times to get it to come up.).
I also can't use the laptop more than about 20' from the hub. I used to be able to use it upstairs, but it drops out. I have tried multiple channels and even set the wireless router to B mode only, G mode only, and mixed mode.
Kwifimanager used to display a nice plot of signal versus noise. The plot appears broken and I can't select a network connection. However, kwifimanager seems to help getting the connection up.... Is there a Gnome equivalent application?
The laptop is set to ACPI S3 mode in the BIOS. I tried suspend from the GUI. I suspends but on unsuspend, the screen stays black and nothing works (for example caps lock does not work so even keyboard is down). I also tried the script from:
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/24/1716222
which saves video state, changes to VT1, and restores video state on unsuspend. Any help would be most appreciated as we use this laptop on the coffee table and it is up quite a lot (it needs to be shutdown more often). This plus the bcm43xx issue make restarts and suspends a real problem.
Any help would be most appreciated.
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Wade Hampton
