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Last night I was connected wirelessly to my access point and all worked fine. |
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Well, towards the end the connection was bobbing up and down as far as my |
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unreliable broadcom NIC is concerned (nothing wrong with the router). I |
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decided to shut it down and go to bed. |
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Today the AP is just not there! Not there as far as this stupid broadcom |
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wireless NIC is concerned. The same machine booted into MSWindows has no |
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problem seeing the AP and associating with it. Another laptop can also see |
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the AP and connect to it. |
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How come the broadcom cannot see it in Gentoo, but it can see all the |
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neighbours APs which have a much weaker signal and even associate and get an |
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IP address from one of them?! I am lost as to what might be causing this. |
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Could it be some lock file that was not removed when the machine is rebooted |
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or the wlan0 interface taken down? Any ideas how I can troubleshoot this? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |