Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > >> The default route this there. However, that doesn't (yet) matter because >> I cannot ping the gateway (192.168.1.1). > > Hum. There was some change recently IIRC to defer loading firmware > until the interface comes up... but your interface says it is up. But > you don't mention looking in dmesg for bcm43xx-mac80211-related > messages.... might be interesting to do that before and after the ifup > that fixes it. Hm you didn't show iwconfig output either when it was bad, that can also have a clue. -Andy