ndiswrapper drops within 4 minutes of startup???

I picked up a Buffalo Wireless-G router today and hooked it up. It
appears to be working fine.

I have an HP laptop running opensuse10.2. It has a broadcom wireless
setup, so I have NDISwrapper. It appears to start ok, but drops its
connection rather quickly. Here is how it looks initially:

mymachine:~ # iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:16:01:9A:C0:79
ESSID:"ZZZnet2"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.427 GHz (Channel 4)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-58 dBm Noise
level:-256 dBm
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : WEP-40
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP WEP-40
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : WEP-40
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP WEP-40
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK


Within a few minutes it drops and iwlist returns nothing. Many times I
don't even have time to complete a network connection.

Any ideas on why this is happening?

As a test last night I hooked up my work notebook to the company's VPN.
When I got up this morning it was still connected and working fine.

My laptop is dual boot and it appears to work fine under Windows (more's
the pity).

There are a couple of other homes with wireless and can see them when I
start up on my linux laptop. All connections get dropped and the only
way to get them back is to reboot the system. ifdown/ifup has no
effect. Reboot is the only way to go.

I don't think it is the router.

Thanks for any help.

b wrote:
> I picked up a Buffalo Wireless-G router today and hooked it up. It
> appears to be working fine.
>
> I have an HP laptop running opensuse10.2. It has a broadcom wireless
> setup, so I have NDISwrapper. It appears to start ok, but drops its
> connection rather quickly. Here is how it looks initially:

I cannot help you with ndiswrapper, but if you upgrade your kernel to 2.6.22, I can help you get the
native bcm43xx driver working. That driver now works better with the BCM4311 mini-PCe card that the
Windows driver works _with_ Windows!

Any problems with bcm43xx, or b43 - the newest driver - should be sent to the Broadcom Linux mailing
list - bcm43xx-(E-Mail Removed).

Larry

Larry Finger wrote:
> b wrote:
>> I picked up a Buffalo Wireless-G router today and hooked it up. It
>> appears to be working fine.
>>
>> I have an HP laptop running opensuse10.2. It has a broadcom wireless
>> setup, so I have NDISwrapper. It appears to start ok, but drops its
>> connection rather quickly. Here is how it looks initially:
>
> I cannot help you with ndiswrapper, but if you upgrade your kernel to
> 2.6.22, I can help you get the native bcm43xx driver working. That
> driver now works better with the BCM4311 mini-PCe card that the Windows
> driver works _with_ Windows!
>
> Any problems with bcm43xx, or b43 - the newest driver - should be sent
> to the Broadcom Linux mailing list - bcm43xx-(E-Mail Removed).
>
> Larry
Mine has worked flawlessly using the bcml5.inf and bcml564.sys files
from Windows with ndiswrapper. The in-kernel bcm43xx driver never worked
correctly for me. Gentoo on HP/Cpq F572US with built-in Broadcom 4311,
AMD64x2.