Wireless very slow..

[Dark_MaGe]

that means that is not a problem related with drivers or networkmanager itself but it's only related to Knetworkmanager....I hope we can find a fix for that.....ODD really...

Sorry I misled you here.. it did disconect in Gnome too, afterall.
The wifi icon was still there as if there was a connection, but I
could not browse or ping any site.

Anyway, it's a Broadcom 802.11G Network Adapter, bcm43xx.
I don't suppose there's an easy way to get it to work. I really
love the look and feel of Sabayon, especially in Gnome now
that I've used it.

try this:

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emerge =wpa_supplicant-0.5.7

[farfnarf]

Ok, thank you.. I just ran that code and it went through the whole thing with no errors
or anything bad that I could see.. I then rebooted and got the network going.. now I
just have to fool around and wait to see if the connection is lost at some point.

[farfnarf]

It's still slow, averaging 33%, and drops out altogether at times.

Any ideas? Do I need to get a driver?

[Dark_MaGe]

It's still slow, averaging 33%, and drops out altogether at times.

Any ideas? Do I need to get a driver?

the only other solution I can tell you is using ndiswrapper....complain with broadcom about not having a decent driver on linux because they did nothing, the actual native driver is a reverse engineering work

[farfnarf]

I'm still trying to figure out how to use ndiswrapper from the sticky post WarraWarra kindly put in this topic.

I'll get it eventually. Thank you again for your responses here.

[WarraWarra]

Guide updated might be easier now.