Before I have had more success using the non-free Broadcom Sta package
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/broadcom-sta-dkms You most likely
have to blacklist the b43 driver for that to work.
Grtz.
Nick
On 17-03-2022 20:32, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
Thanks to Aitor (twice), Steve, Gregory, Simon for your
informative suggestions.
Associating my broadcom bcm43228 adapter with the wifi
router has been hit-and-miss, mostly miss with a rare,
inexplicable success.
I tried the usual suspects - upgrading the system,
removing and reinstalling/reinserting the drivers.
It's not worth beating my head much more over this dodgy
driver. I can manage without wifi for now, at least until I
can find a linux-friend USB wifi dongle.
To respond to Steve, for 10+ years I've never had problems
with wpa_supplicant. Perhaps bugs in the wifi hardware or
FIRMWARE have caused your wpa_supplicant to hang. Anyway
you have a solution.
Again, thanks to all for your generous help.
joel
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 09:21:54PM +0100, aitor wrote:
Hi Joel,
On 11/3/22 20:40, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
Hi wifi veterans,
I recently migrated my chimaera system to new hardware. The
wifi adapter is Broadcom BCM43228. Installing the
firmware-b43-installer package got this adapter working
normally.
After doing an apt-get upgrade, I can get a a wifi
connection, for example using wpa_gui, however dhclient just
times out.
Do you have any suggestions for how to troubleshoot this?
Did you clear the ip addreses? I use the command below together with ifupdown:
#|ip addr flush dev wlan0|
Another way might be to force DHCP client release your ip:
# dhclient -r wlan0
# rm|/var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.wlan0.leases (!! Not sure about the name of the
file storing the leases)|
# dhclient wlan0
This way you reacquire a fresh ip from the DHCP server.||
HTH,
Aitor.
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