On 06/05/11 11:01, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 06/05/11 10:37, Larry Finger wrote: >> Coverage of the "n" devices with b43 did not become very good until >> 2.6.39 and those changes were too invasive to be backported to earlier >> kernels. Using the git tree from wireless-testing should work. > > Ahh okay, so an update to the kernel will be worthwhile... > I shall do a pull of the relevant git tree and see how it goes.
It seems to be actually working now... > stuartl@vk4msl-mb ~ $ /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 ; /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 > wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:6c:83:b6:b7 > inet addr:192.168.64.45 Bcast:192.168.64.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: 2001:388:d000:1100:223:6cff:fe83:b6b7/64 Scope:Global > inet6 addr: fe80::223:6cff:fe83:b6b7/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:561 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:687 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:281615 (275.0 KiB) TX bytes:99282 (96.9 KiB) > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"longlandclan" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:60:64:28:74:1C > > Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm > Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > Power Management:off > Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=0 dBm > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:60 Missed beacon:0 Kernel is: > commit 3f83d64e768605b9f7a8d5d06c3ae04c94209aa1 > Merge: e1ec677 805a3b8 > Author: John W. Linville <[email protected]> > Date: Fri Jun 3 16:00:09 2011 -0400 > > Merge > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 > 2011-06-05 11:44:08 (3.03 MB/s) - > `/home/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.36.tar.bz2' saved [70277083/70277083] About what I'd expect for a 54Mbps link. Thanks for the assistance. Hopefully this thread helps the next person looking for wifi on similar machines. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.' I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
