Possible fix for b43 related stability issues
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 7:28 pm
It seems someone has finally made some progress on why b43 seems to randomly stop working, and it's related to the wifi switching between 802.11b and 802.11g rates:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b4 ... hread.html
A temporary fix is purportedly to force the ap radio and your client radio to only use 802.11b or 802.11g rates. Depending on your interpretation of Hauke's comment, just forcing the ap to use only the b or g rate may be enough. I am currently testing my router with the following command (which I ran from a ssh session):
iw dev wlan0 set bitrates legacy-2.4 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54
If you are using a wrt54g, wrt54gl or some similar router, it might be worth a try.
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b4 ... hread.html
A temporary fix is purportedly to force the ap radio and your client radio to only use 802.11b or 802.11g rates. Depending on your interpretation of Hauke's comment, just forcing the ap to use only the b or g rate may be enough. I am currently testing my router with the following command (which I ran from a ssh session):
iw dev wlan0 set bitrates legacy-2.4 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54
If you are using a wrt54g, wrt54gl or some similar router, it might be worth a try.