2011/6/5 Stuart Longland <[email protected]>: > > 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.
Status is quite nice described on our wiki page [0]. It really says support for your chipset is experimental only in 2.6.38 :) [0] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 -- Rafał _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
