Fedora Users — Broadcom 4318 wireless again ...

I have been struggling with my wireless since FC 5. Although on acomparatively rare hardware (Apple ibook - ppc), problems were similarto those reported by users with a different architecture. I have triedthe old-style driver (bcm43xx) as well as the new-style one(bcm43xx_mac80211). After a lot of reading, some reports to bugzilla(which turned out to be quite responsive and helpful, btw), and long andsometimes frustrating experimentation, I got both drivers to associatesomehow, but eventually I stuck with the old one which seemed to be morereliable and gave me a stable connection with WPA encryption.

Whenever a new kernel comes up (and when I have some spare time) I givethe new driver another try. Now, today we have 2.6.22.4-65 (Sundayafternoon), so I fired up the new driver again (won't give you thedetails now how I did the change) which is now called b43, but the nameis aliased to bcm43xx_mac8021.

Now to my problem: I can activate the device with the new driver, runwpa_supplicant to associate to my access point, get an ip address withdhclient, and iwconfig tells me that there is a connection establishedwith a speed of 54 Mbits/s, but - I can't get to the Internet. Pings areextremely slow, when trying to go to a web site the browser tells methat it is performing a look up but it ends up in an error (can't connect).So what's going on there? There seems to be nothing wrong in the outputof dmesg, ifconfig, iwconfig ...