broadcom wifi BCM43142 lag problems

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broadcom wifi BCM43142 lag problems

Post#1 by mrlovaxrovax » 16 May 2017, 22:56

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

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Re: broadcom wifi BCM43142 lag problems

Post#2 by Bogomips » 17 May 2017, 00:08

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

Post#3 by mrlovaxrovax » 17 May 2017, 21:58

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


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