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by **farfnarf** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 21:32

..this is the new Sabayon on an Acer Aspire laptop with Broadcom
adaptor, etc. (lspci | grep net yeilds "06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)").

I feel like I'm on an old 28k dial up connection instead of my fast cable.

Why is it so slow and what can I do to speed it up?

by **edgevision** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 21:37

Broadcom BCM4xxx series has known issues with transmit power, see some of the other topics in this forum. I believe it has to do with the new mac80211 driver in SL 3.4.

by **farfnarf** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 21:55

edgevision wrote:Broadcom BCM4xxx series has known issues with transmit power, see some of the other topics in this forum. I believe it has to do with the new mac80211 driver in SL 3.4.

Thank you. I un-emerged knetwork manager to re-install it and now I get error messages
saying it can't be done.

Now I'm stuck; kwifi manager works and tells me I have an "excellent" connection, but I can't
get the laptop to go online even though kwifi says I am online! ??? (I'm posting via my
desktop pc right now

).

by **Dark_MaGe** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 23:53

farfnarf wrote:..this is the new Sabayon on an Acer Aspire laptop with Broadcom
adaptor, etc. (lspci | grep net yeilds "06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)").

I feel like I'm on an old 28k dial up connection instead of my fast cable.

Why is it so slow and what can I do to speed it up?

that's not a wireless card.....check carefully... broadcom wireless is something like bcm43XX

by **farfnarf** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 0:56

I am lost in all this.

And a bit disappointed. It's a newer adaptor on a newer linux distro, and it does not work
for more than a few minutes before dropping the connection. This is a new behavior for
that Acer laptop; I have not seen it do that in other distros. The trouble is, with the other
distros I have to put up with junky multimedia.

I guess each distro has its strengths and weaknesses. I think part of the problem is the
HUGE amount of different hardware out there; my laptop has a type of network card
that is not compatible (at least the driver) with the new linux kernel.

I am afraid to start compiling and things such as that. I'll just mess it up even more.

I'm not sure what to do now. For the time being I am going to just put the Vista hard
drive back in so I can use the laptop without losing the internet connection (I'm posting
this on my old Gateway pc right now).

by **Dark_MaGe** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:35

farfnarf wrote:I am lost in all this.

And a bit disappointed. It's a newer adaptor on a newer linux distro, and it does not work
for more than a few minutes before dropping the connection. This is a new behavior for
that Acer laptop; I have not seen it do that in other distros. The trouble is, with the other
distros I have to put up with junky multimedia.

I guess each distro has its strengths and weaknesses. I think part of the problem is the
HUGE amount of different hardware out there; my laptop has a type of network card
that is not compatible (at least the driver) with the new linux kernel.

I am afraid to start compiling and things such as that. I'll just mess it up even more.

I'm not sure what to do now. For the time being I am going to just put the Vista hard
drive back in so I can use the laptop without losing the internet connection (I'm posting
this on my old Gateway pc right now).

we still need to know which is that adapter.....you posted a sliced lspci, which shows an ethernet card...so can you post your lspci and your lsusb and...a tail -n /var/log/messages just after you've had a disconnection?????

by **WarraWarra** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 17:32

Dark -> Just posted a quick wifi sticky might need to edit it or add to make it propper , could not get back into it to edit = spelling mistakes. This shouls help for now.

by **farfnarf** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 18:33

I saw a post in another thread from a person who re-installed Sabayon and selected Gnome.

I just did that about two hours ago and I noticed that the wifi connection set up quicker and the quality of the connection is noticibly better. Plus it has not dropped out once yet, whereas in KDE I was having to reconnect every few minutes just to browse a website like CNN.

I wonder why it's working so good in Gnome and was not in KDE.

I like Gnome just fine, but still would like to know about this.

by **Dark_MaGe** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 18:43

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...

by **farfnarf** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 22:16

Dark_MaGe wrote: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.

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