Weak wireless reception?..

**killer_d76** · August 3rd, 2009

i just noticed early this morning when i discovered an Open Wireless Connection courtesy of my kapitbahay (i have informed him about this already and thought him how to secure his wireless connection) the signal was detected by my wireless card (broadcom wireless card) when i tried to connect to it using jaunty.. it failed to connect... i booted to OSX and tried to connect to the same wireless connection and "boom"!.. i was getting a very good signal and i was able to surf a few sites... then reboot back to jaunty (sigh)

can't seem to connect to it again...

take note that the test was done using a Neo Empriva Laptop (dual boot with Ubuntu Jaunty and Mac OSX ) using the stock broadcom wireless card.

**loell** · August 3rd, 2009

would you know the specific chipset of your broadcom?

**killer_d76** · August 4th, 2009

it's a Broadcom 3945.. by defualt it is detected by Jaunty.. not unlike Gutsy that i have to install its firmaware (provided by you loell!.. thanks).. i was just wondering maybe it's because of the default/bundled wireless firmware on ubuntu jaunty?..

**loell** · August 4th, 2009

seems a know issue in jaunty,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/348204

the overall concensus is to use wicd instead of network manager.

**pinoyskull** · August 5th, 2009

Originally Posted by loell

seems a know issue in jaunty,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/348204

the overall concensus is to use wicd instead of network manager.

+1 to that

and also check which encryption it uses