Broacom issues

[Dans564]

Hey everyone,

I have a Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11b/g/n wireless card and Linux mint 14 cinnamon, with the STA wireless drivers activated through software sources.

I am having serious stability issues with this card and driver. When first booting, it can take anywhere from a minute to five minutes for wifi networks to be scanned, then another handful of minutes to join my home network. Also, once joined, my connection is super flaky. It drops out at random intervals, about 3 times every 10 minutes.

Anyone have any idea as to what could be going on here?

Thanks in advanced,
Daniel

[Dans564]

hey everyone,

Running mint 14 32bit here, on a custom gaming rig. I have a broadcom BCM4321 which historically at least, has worked fine with the STA driver. Yesterday, when I installed Mint 14 64bit, the driver worked like garbage. Took forever to scan for networks, and would disconnect constantly. Working off a hunch, I figured it was maybe just a 64bit issue, so today I installed 32bit mint. It seemed to work way better for a while, but now I am experiencing very slow speeds, and although the wifi connection stays open, I randomly loose internet access.

Here is the output of mintwifi.py:

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dan@core21 ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
[sudo] password for dan: 
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
      ==> PCI ID = 14e4:4329 (rev 01)
-------------------------
* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

eth2      IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"no wifi for you"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 20:AA:4B:AC:81:E9   
          Bit Rate=58.5 Mb/s   Tx-Power:24 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=4/5  Signal level=-67 dBm  Noise level=-57 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:696  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:18:94:0d:37  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:18:94:05:da  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr e0:91:f5:66:b1:a0  
          inet addr:192.168.1.108  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: 2601:d:a7c0:18:e291:f5ff:fe66:b1a0/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fd7d:8c9e:44b8:0:e291:f5ff:fe66:b1a0/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::e291:f5ff:fe66:b1a0/64 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: 2601:d:a7c0:18:2424:7244:d462:e509/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fd7d:8c9e:44b8:0:2424:7244:d462:e509/64 Scope:Global
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:101546 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:117350
          TX packets:72949 errors:42 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:105638455 (105.6 MB)  TX bytes:11861932 (11.8 MB)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2714 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2714 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:432697 (432.6 KB)  TX bytes:432697 (432.6 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service smbd reload

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the reload(8) utility, e.g. reload smbd
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server:		75.75.75.75
Address:	75.75.75.75#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.34
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.40
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.39
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.36
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.46
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.33
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.35
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.38
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.41
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.37
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.32

Only one weird thing I can see is that my wifi is being reported as eth2, although not sure this would cause any problems. Anyone no what's goin on with my speed?

[viking777]

I have merged these two threads together as they obviously relate to the same topic.

Forum Rules Section 2 Rule 7.

[Dans564]

two seperate installs, one is 64bit one is 32bit. Nature of the problem isn't quite similiar either. Yes both effect wifi, but they are very different symptoms.

[Dans564]

compiling my own driver fixed it, a solution that didn't work when using 64bit. I guess they aren't the same problem