Comment 28 for bug 197819

Man, I am having a heck of a time getting this to work in 8.04! Oddly enough, everything worked perfectly in 7.10- all I had to do there was click the checkbox in the Restricted Drivers Manager. When I installed 8.04 I did a complete wipe, btw. Figured it was best to start fresh.

Anyway, at this point after multiple installs, removals, purges and other suggestions in these forums... Hardware Drivers now says the Broadcom B43 wireless driver is both enabled and in use. The green WiFi light is on. Through the Network Manager tray icon I can see various nearby APs, but cannot connect to any of them. Once I select one (or enter in one manually), the icon just keeps spinning and neither circle ever turns green. The NetworkManager process goes to 50% cpu (core duo, I think it's really taking up 100% of one of the processors?) and basically from there all I can do to get a network connection (even wired) is reboot.

This is a Dell Inspiron 6400, with the 4311 mini pci:
0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Dell Unknown device [1028:0007]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
 Region 0: Memory at efcfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>