Somebody in the thread at some point said:
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
The default route this there. However, that doesn't (yet) matter because I cannot ping the gateway (192.168.1.1).
Hum. There was some change recently IIRC to defer loading firmware until the interface comes up... but your interface says it is up. But you don't mention looking in dmesg for bcm43xx-mac80211-related messages.... might be interesting to do that before and after the ifup that fixes it.
Hm you didn't show iwconfig output either when it was bad, that can also have a clue.
-Andy