My wireless card's model works like crap with the b43 driver. Salix does not seem to support the sta (wl) driver at all it seems. From all the search results everyone with wl was asked to move to b43.
So let me start by introducing my computer:
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root[tai2]# lspci -nn | grep -i broadcom
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:432b] (rev 01) Basically It connects successfully, but then after a while (minutes) it disconnects. At first I thought the problem was in wicd, so I replaced it with network manager. Unfortunately the problem did not go away. The network manager does not inform me it has disconnected, but there is no connection at all. So in order to reconnect I have to manually do it through wicd or network-manager (nm-applet) and reconnect. Since network manager requires less steps to reconnect, I decided to keep it as a replacement.
The connection does not slow down, it completely stops. This is unfortunately very annoying, and it pushed me to try the sta driver:
broadcom<dot>com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
I installed it with a slackbuild (sourcery) and it built just fine. So I modprobe -r b43 and then loaded wl instead. My wireless card is not being picked up by the network manager at all. wl loads fine, no errors,I even tried blacklisting b43- no luck.
So I had to move back to b43 and it's crappy connection.
What should I do? I tried disabling Ipv6- this doesnt seem to remedy the problem as well.
It ran just fine on ubuntu, but i really grew to hate ubuntu.
I made sure that this problem is not due poor wifi reception. My other laptop does not have this issue.
