hp mini 2133 with Broadcom4310 and wireless problem
I have a new hp 2133 pre-loaded with SLED 10. (it has an early version number of 2.6.16) The problem is most of the time it will not make a wireless connection. The 2 monitor icons show "no network connection"
Occasionally the thing wakes up and works perfectly! It then shows strong signals from my router and picks up several others in the area. My network configuration is all correct, it is not an IP problem and nothing to do with firewalls. It also works fine when I by-pass the wireless with an ethernet cable direct to the router.
The network card is Broadcom, but which one is confusing me. On the label on the bottom of the case it says BCM94312MCG. but lspci shows it as BCM4310 (rev01). It also showed up as 14e4:4315 (rev 01) but I forget where I found that. So is it a 4310, a 4312 or a 4315?? who knows!
I have found that the driver it has pre-loaded is wl. This shows in dmesg and also when I use the GUI for Hardware Information.
The GUI for Network Drivers shows: Modprobe: yes, Module: modprobe wl, and Active: no From this I assume that the driver is there but just isn't being activated.
After a lot of reading about problems with BCM drivers I started out to change the driver and loaded ndiswrapper. But then stopped as I am not so sure that this is the problem, so I have not yet fed it with any new driver inf or sys files. I am not sure which to use or that the driver is wrong in the first place. So for now it is still set up with the original wl driver that it came with.
I am really struggling with this! I have now read so much I realise that I don't specifically understand what the problem is.
Any thoughts as to how to work through this?
Guy
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