Then trying to find the errors others has been having I did break my wireless. Only updated dhcp and dhcpcd everything else stayed the same for this testas is from the cd instal of 3.4mini 32bit.
During this I noticed a few things.
This is how to break it.
emerge -s dhcp and updated to 3.1.0 as well as emerged dhcpcd to latest version wifi still working then reconnect and obviously it did not work after trying to use dhcpcd as alternative to dhcp. I did run net-setup a few times during and after this not sure how much impact it had on this breaking part.
knetworkmanager:
statistics = 68 dropped receiving , send = 0 ? looks like it thinks it is sending correct info and then receiving garbage or reads it as garbage. knetworkmanager shows 97% signal.
This did show during the connection attempt and it got stuck at 57% with 2 feet from wifi router as well as 150 foot away.
My lan only got 169.254.xxx.xxx as a result of my actions. Obviously dhcp has issues during this process.
unmerging / remergeing dhcp did not fix this and have to reinstall as a result or chroot + fix it from the inside if possible from live cd.
iwconfig reads only 5 to 10 difference but when knetworkmanager is active or running it shows the same signal as at least 15 to 20 difference and this is better just not sure why the same signal in the same place gives 2 readings ? Maybe knetwk is boosting the signal or fixing a bug in iwconfig / firmware no idea here.
dmesg that might be of interest,
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[ 29.523749] Device driver i2c-1 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
[ 29.523767] Device driver i2c-2 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
[ 29.523784] Device driver i2c-3 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
[ 32.874474] Device driver 0000:0c:00.0 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
[ 32.927340] Device driver 0000:0c:00.0 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
[ 32.934761] Device driver 0000:0c:00.0 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
[ 34.758542] Device driver 0000:0c:00.0 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
[ 36.180061] atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access hardware directly.
[ 37.168522] atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access hardware directly.
[ 87.866581] SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:13:49:ae:6e:cc
[ 88.843314] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'
[ 112.102700] printk: 17 messages suppressed.
[ 134.005582] Device driver 0000:0c:00.0 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
[ 132.198273] Device driver 0000:0c:00.0 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
[ 134.011782] Device driver 0000:0c:00.0 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
[ 132.204303] Device driver 0000:0c:00.0 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
[ 150.594830] printk: 1 messages suppressed.
[ 150.594839] SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:
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localhost ~ # [b]lsmod[/b]
Module Size Used by
michael_mic 2496 0
ieee80211_crypt_tkip 10496 0
snd_seq_dummy 3748 0
snd_seq_oss 29408 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6880 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 46224 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 7692 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
nvidia 6215440 26
bcm43xx 113480 0
ieee80211softmac 27168 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 31528 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
ieee80211_crypt 5792 2 ieee80211_crypt_tkip,ieee80211
b44 24784 0
ssb 30820 1 b44
pcmcia 36564 1 ssb
iTCO_wdt 10628 0
iTCO_vendor_support 3780 1 iTCO_wdt
intel_agp 23220 0
snd_hda_intel 238616 0
i2c_i801 8240 0
i2c_core 23616 2 nvidia,i2c_i801
joydev 9536 0
pcspkr 2976 0
tg3 100228 0
e1000 111488 0
scsi_wait_scan 1408 0
sl811_hcd 11616 0
uhci_hcd 22704 0
ehci_hcd 31052 0
knetworkmanager:
statistics = 68 dropped receiving , send = 0
Using ndiswrapper + win .inf driver = still no connect 57%
dhcp 3.1.0 re-installed and dhcpcd removed.
Recap = 2 different readings in iwconfig , 68 dropped at any distance ? could this be dhcp related or merely covered during normal usage and this way the tolerance is less = issues connecting. Interesting that the dhcp and dhcpcd does not mix and match with latest versions or is causing this.
Currently typing from 3.4 live cd mini
But have also seen that with the firmware for bcm43xx and knetworkmanager the signal is 97% and in iwconfig -55 / -64 and Rx invalid crypt:2120 , firmware / ieee80211 causing this or something else at 2 feet or 150 feet get the same result on any channel but signal strength improves = only difference.
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sabayonx86 ~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"Testing" Nickname:"Broadcom 4311"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:11:xx:xx:xx:xx
Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:1111-2222-3333-4444-.......-xxxx Security mode:open
Link Quality=75/100 Signal level=-55 dBm Noise level=-64 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:2120 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
eth1 no wireless extensions.
What bugs me is that it is open so it should not have major issues connecting = encryption is buggy ? for this test.
Maybe someone can make head or tails of this and inform who needs to know so it can be fixed / updated.
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sabayonx86 ~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce Go 7950 GTX (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)