fair enough, but does that explain why I only get connectivity on some APs and not others, although all of them have the same security policy? I mean, the card connects to the network, just times out while trying to receive DHCP information over some of them :S<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Mat Booth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbooth@fedoraproject.org">mbooth@fedoraproject.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On 1 February 2011 10:51, Aritra Dalal <<a href="mailto:aritra.dalal@gmail.com">aritra.dalal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hey there,<br>><br>><br></div>
<div class="im">> I run Ubuntu x64 10.10 on a BCM4312 b/g card.<br>><br><br></div>Ugh, unfortunately it's probably more to do with that Broadcom adaptor<br>rather than Ubuntu itself.<br><br>Sadly Broadcom adaptors are really quite flakey because you have to<br>
use the proprietary driver, which may or may not require a non-zero<br>amount of imaginative hackery to get working. This page might help<br>you: <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx</a><br>
<br>However, Broadcom recently released a whole chunk of code so the<br>situation is likely to improve in the future but that code is still in<br>the staging tree and has not yet been merged in the mainline upstream<br>kernel. I don't know if Ubuntu have back-ported it to any of their<br>
released kernels.<br><br>Regards,<br>Mat<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Mat Booth<br><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora</a><br></font>
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