Hello everyone, I am trying to get a Airport Extreme A1027 wifi card to work on an iMac G5. The card is identified via lspci as
0001:01:01.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) The card connects ok to the router and acquires an IP, but once network activity starts to happen the connection drops. It reconnects, only to drop again afterwards. A few packets go through, but it is not really usable. The following is what I see from dmesg: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 784.2 (2012-08-15 21:35:19) wlan0: authenticate with 62:a4:b7:5f:5b:a1 wlan0: 80 MHz not supported, disabling VHT wlan0: send auth to 62:a4:b7:5f:5b:a1 (try 1/3) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with 62:a4:b7:5f:5b:a1 (try 1/3) wlan0: RX AssocResp from 62:a4:b7:5f:5b:a1 (capab=0xc01 status=0 aid=1) wlan0: associated IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready wlan0: deauthenticated from 62:a4:b7:5f:5b:a1 (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING) On different forums it says that the deauthenticated (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING) could be the competition of several network managers trying to manage the card. However, this is happening just using ifupdown and dhcpcd on an open network. Has anyone seen this? Do other people have the Airport Extreme working? Could this be a hardware fault? Could I test the hardware somehow? Many thanks, João
