Description of problem: when connecting to the internet thru wifi a selection of availalbe networks appear but when clickin on one they all disappeared and a message "connection to wifi failed" appeard and all the list of networks disappear. A REBOOT solves the problem and the selected network is automatically available Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Network card here is the info from the mageia control panel: Identification Fabricant: âBroadcom Corporation Description: âBCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller Classe de média: âNetwork controller Connexion Bus: âPCI Express Domaine PCI: â0 Bus PCI n°: â2 Périphérique PCI n°: â0 Fonction PCI n°: â0 Révision PCI: â0x01 Identifiant du fabricant: â0x14e4 Identifiant du périphérique: â0x4727 Identifiant du sous-vendeur: â0x105b Identifiant du sous-périphérique: â0xe042 Divers Module: âbcma How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.Enter into your profile 2.Select a wifi network 3.Click on selected network this happens all the time under any type of wifi network A REBOOT SOLVES THE PROBLEM still very annoying Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
Broadcoam cards are indeed very fussy but for years the linux community has developped drivers and when another distribution was installed on this very computer aka Ubuntu there was NEVER any problems meaning the drivers do indeed exist.
you could try the bcma drivers instead of the nonfree one
Component: Release (media or process) => RPM Packages
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Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => OLD