On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Michael Simpson <mikie.simpson at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > I have a BCM4306 pcmcia card (one of the later revisions) that i use > to connect to my wpa2 wireless network. > > Wireless now works but is *real slow* just for internet access (like > minutes for pages to load). ssh, ping etc all good and quick I fear I can contribute more commiseration than assistance. I have an HP laptop with builtin Broadcom wireless. I initially got CentOS 5 working with ndiswrapper, but had to change my access point from shared to open authentication (WEP) and found that ndiswrapper fails to authtenticate in the latter configuration. The default bcm43xx module handles the open authentication OK, but I experience a lot of lost and duplicated packets -- experiments with ping show up to 30% failure some of the time. (I should update the HP ze5300 wiki page with this info.) I have to plug in to a wired net to do package updates. I have other wireless devices using the same AP with no problems, and the same laptop performs well when booted into Windows, so this appears to be a problem with the bcm43xx drivers. I keep hoping that each kernel update will improve the situation, but so far in vain.