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Broacom issues
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 8:27 am
by 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
[SOLVED] SUPER slow wifi
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 12:19 pm
by 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)
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* 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?
Re: SUPER slow wifi
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 7:14 am
by viking777
I have merged these two threads together as they obviously relate to the same topic.
Forum Rules Section 2 Rule 7.
Re: SUPER slow wifi
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 11:19 am
by 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.
Re: SUPER slow wifi
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 6:00 pm
by Dans564
compiling my own driver fixed it, a solution that didn't work when using 64bit. I guess they aren't the same problem