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  1. Bug #263106
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 263106

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Nick Steeves (nick-0) wrote : Re: b43 and bcm94311 disconnects due to PHY transmission error

My Linksys PCI BCM4318 NIC worked flawlessly with 8.04, with the b43 driver. After upgrading to 9.04, dmesg is flooded with

b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error

and the system becomes unresponsive. Additionally, auto rate doesn't work, and the radio always chooses 1M...although I can manually set it to 54M. I've tried all the alternate firmware "solutions" to no avail.

I manually configure the NIC in /etc/network/interfaces with WPA2 and a static IP. I still have a backup of my 8.04 installation, but I'd much rather help to debug this regression.