[Bug 583564] Re: Broadcom drivers unusable on Dell Mini 10v

[chicken159]

Hi, 
To confirm the chipset:

09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1673] (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01)

I am aware the b43 driver is not currently usable; my problem and that of a number of others, is that the STA driver provides a flaky-at-best, VERY slow connection. Whether this is just the driver, or something somewhere else in the stack, I have not been able to tell - but the symptoms are:
1. On the STA driver
When using firefox: any page starts loading, but slowly, then usually hangs 'waiting for www...'. Soemtimes a click on reload works. Sometimes opening another tab and trying a different site works. Mostly though it doesn't and the loading page just hangs.

Update manager exhibits the same - starts to download but stops, waits
and times out.

2. Using any other form of networking - 3G dongle / wired / USB wireless
dongle - networking is fine.

3. Running Snow-Leopard on the same machine is just fine so suspect that
rules out hardware issues.

This is normally on my home network with WPA, but also exhibited on un-
secured networks at work and in hotels.

I am running a clean install of bog-standard 10.04 desktop. (About the
3rd wipe and reinstall I've done trying to fix/solve this).

Any chance that b43 will support this anytime soon? (without going down
the newer kernel route?).

Any suggestions welcome!

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Broadcom drivers unusable on Dell Mini 10v
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583564
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