Got it! The problem is with the BCM43xx driver. It doesn't have automatic leveling of the bit rate. It's on developing stage now and will be implemented on the next release. I just set my bit rate to 2M. by: # iwconfig eth1 rate 2M And voila! No flakyness. I set my private address as static instead of DHCP and my hostname as static as well. It helped so my host didn't have to negotiate everytime it lost signal. Hope this helps for other users with the same problem regards gabriel 2007/12/27, Rajko M. :

On Thursday 27 December 2007 01:05:03 am Gabriel Moreno wrote:

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I've been using opensuse 10.3 for 3 weeks now. For the wireless card driver I used bcm43xx with wl_apsta.o

When i am connected to the internet sometimes my packets stop arriving to my 2wire router. Sometimes my packets arrive at the router and eventhough i have dhcp, I don't have internet connection. My internet connection is very flaky usually failing every 15-20 minutes. Sometimes it's good for hours but then stop working for hours as well.

This is NOT hardware problem since nothing like this happens when I use windows... never. (not that I will switch to windows, i like opensuse, I am just pointing this to clarify that it's a linux problem)

I've been googling this for sometime and I haven't find anything concrete.

Any suggestions? I've been reading about bugs in network manager but just speculations

I had problem even to establish connection, and I resorted to ndiswrapper and NetworkManager: http://en.opensuse.org/Ndiswrapper http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Broadcom_(BCM4306)_WLAN_Installation_under_SUSE

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gabriel moreno cholula, mexico

It is not very opensource method, but it is the only that worked on HP ZV6100.

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