Bug 16957

Summary:	Wifi status in taskbar is unreliable for Broadcom chipset.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Herman Viaene <herman.viaene>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Kernel and Drivers maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, tmb
Version:	5	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Herman Viaene 2015-10-14 09:59:54 CEST

Description of problem:
Broadcom BCM4313 wifi. The wifi status indicator in the taskbar (KDE) is unreliable. It reports the linklevel either as more than 90% - which is correct as laptop and router are in the same room - or in about 2 out of 3 reboots as 0%. This reporting never changes during a session. And the internet connection always works OK, what is very unlikely if the linklevel is really 0%.

AFAICS this never happens on another laptop with Atheros wifi.

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Comment 1 Thomas Backlund 2015-10-14 10:06:00 CEST

is this with the broadcom-wl driver or the in-kernel drivers ?

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 2 Herman Viaene 2015-10-14 10:37:05 CEST

It is the broadcom-wl driver

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2016-12-21 07:36:13 CET

Is this bug still valid?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => kernel

Comment 4 Herman Viaene 2016-12-21 08:42:52 CET

I cann't test it anymore. That laptop has gone to IT-heavens.

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2016-12-21 09:05:30 CET

(In reply to Herman Viaene from comment #4)
> I cann't test it anymore. That laptop has gone to IT-heavens.

Thanks for the feedback, closing as OLD, then

@ anyone still seeing this issue:

Please reopen this bug report :-)

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD