Re: [PATCH, RFC] b44: Add fw capabilities

2009-04-09 Thread Francesco Gringoli
On Apr 9, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Wednesday 08 April 2009 02:11:16 Michael Buesch wrote: Completely untested patch to implement firmware capabilities and automagic QoS-disabling. So could somebody who uses opensource fw test this? Module parameter qos=0 should not be

Re: [PATCH, RFC] b44: Add fw capabilities

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Buesch
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 02:11:16 Michael Buesch wrote: Completely untested patch to implement firmware capabilities and automagic QoS-disabling. So could somebody who uses opensource fw test this? Module parameter qos=0 should not be needed anymore. So please test opensource fw with

Re: [PATCH, RFC] b44: Add fw capabilities

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Buesch
On Thursday 09 April 2009 12:36:42 Francesco Gringoli wrote: On Apr 9, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Wednesday 08 April 2009 02:11:16 Michael Buesch wrote: Completely untested patch to implement firmware capabilities and automagic QoS-disabling. So could somebody who

Re: Problems with 2.6.30-rc1

2009-04-09 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Larry Finger [090408 16:18 -0500] If you are having problems with wireless networking using 2.6.30-rc1 from Linus's Linux-2.6 git tree, the fix is the following (Note: This is _NOT_ needed for wireless-testing!!!): --- Fix try_then_request_module to use waiting __request_module again.

Re: b43 Hostap Performance

2009-04-09 Thread Francesco Gringoli
On Apr 6, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: Well, you know that lots of cards don't work correctly with b43. I bet you're using a BCM4318 flavor. Sadly, yes, it is a BCM4318. I've tried moving further away from the AP, as well as decreasing the txpower output.. neither seemed to

Re: b43 Hostap Performance

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Buesch
On Thursday 09 April 2009 23:47:25 Francesco Gringoli wrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: Well, you know that lots of cards don't work correctly with b43. I bet you're using a BCM4318 flavor. Sadly, yes, it is a BCM4318. I've tried moving further away from the

quetion on beacon irq and multibss

2009-04-09 Thread Francesco Gringoli
Michael, I was wondering about the beacon IRQ and those functions inside b43 that handle such interrupt. In which situations apart the first installation of the beacon in template ram, is handle_irq_beacon called inside the b43 driver? E.g., openfirmware does not raise the beacon irq but

Re: quetion on beacon irq and multibss

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 10 April 2009 00:34:32 Francesco Gringoli wrote: I was wondering about the beacon IRQ and those functions inside b43 that handle such interrupt. In which situations apart the first installation of the beacon in template ram, is handle_irq_beacon called inside the b43 driver?

Re: b43 Hostap Performance

2009-04-09 Thread Francesco Gringoli
On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:42 AM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Friday 10 April 2009 00:28:48 Francesco Gringoli wrote: You mean that it misses to transmit some frames? Do you have hypotheses on why AP mode should complete change the behavior of the board from good enough to not working correctly?

Re: quetion on beacon irq and multibss

2009-04-09 Thread Francesco Gringoli
On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:44 AM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Friday 10 April 2009 00:34:32 Francesco Gringoli wrote: I was wondering about the beacon IRQ and those functions inside b43 that handle such interrupt. In which situations apart the first installation of the beacon in template ram, is