Hello,
I've read as many forum posts on the broadcom issues as I can but I've not found a solution. I've just installed Porteus3.2.2 on my laptop and although wifi is working, it can take a long time to connect and there is often a lag when connecting to websites or downloading pages. I believe this is related to Porteus as the same laptop has Windows 10 installed and the Wifi is fine - also other devices in the house don't have this problem; the wifi is definitely much worse under proteus where it can take a minute to download a simple page. I've got the following card/chipset:
root@porteus:/home/guest# lspci -nn -d 14e4:
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)
I tried blacklisting wl and unblacklisting all the other drivers. I did this by adding a blacklist wl line to both b43_blacklist.conf and broadcom_blacklist.conf and uncommenting all the other drivers (maybe this was wrong...) After a reboot I didn't have any wifi functionality at all, so I undid this change. Any help much appreciated.
Regards,
Simon
broadcom wifi BCM43142 lag problems
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Re: broadcom wifi BCM43142 lag problems
Welcome to Porteus. The broadcom issue has croped up several times, so no doubt someone who has fixed it will be ble to give gen you require.
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Re: broadcom wifi BCM43142 lag problems
Some diagnostics:
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root@porteus:/home/guest# iwlist eth1 scan
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 40:65:A3:5A:19:30
Channel:1
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=46/70 Signal level=-64 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"Bbox-1F980DE8"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0000000000000000
Extra: Last beacon: 99ms ago
IE: Unknown: 000D42626F782D3146393830444538
IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
IE: Unknown: 030101
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 2F0100
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
IE: Unknown: 2D1AFC181BFFFF000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 3D1601080400000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: DD090010180205F02C0000
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
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root@porteus:/home/guest# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"Bbox-1F980DE8"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 40:65:A3:5A:19:30
Bit Rate=72 Mb/s Tx-Power=200 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=48/70 Signal level=-62 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0