On 09/07/2019 15:48, Derek.Moody wrote:
> In article , The Natural Philosopher
>  wrote:
>> On 09/07/2019 12:00, Derek.Moody wrote:
>>> In article , The Natural Philosopher
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> And to note that for wahetver reason at least the linux wifi system is
>>>> not good at adapting to this scenario.
>>>
>>> Your distro will have settled for the first driver that worked at install
time.
>>>
>>> It's worth looking up your chip set and searching for alternative drivers;
>>> try 'em all and find which is best for you.
>>>
>> Only one exists for broadcom chips
>
> Not quite that simple:  For a long time Broadcom were notorious for not
> supplying Linux drivers so much so that the general advice was don't buy
> Broadcom.
>
> About ten years back they did begin to supply drivers but they are
> restricted in several ways and many were lumped together in one generic
> module.
>
> At the same time several reverse engineered open source drivers
> were developed - often better than the company's own.
>
> It can also matter which driver goes with which set of firmware...
>
> And there was even one set that was inclined to switch the ethernet and wifi
> interfaces without warning.
>
> It really is worth searching for alternatives, Broadcom's own may not be the
> only offering.
>
Frankly with respect no, it isn't.

I have some sort of stability now and that's all I want.

As far as I know there is only one driver for the raspberry Pi zero/W.

And the laptop is on standard Linux mint and whatever it recommends

I tried other drivers - the bcm43 legacy and FWcutter stuff and they
were even worse


I was going to invest in a wifi USB dongle, but now it seems unecessary.


> Cheerio,
>


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