Hello, I've been having issues with getting the b43 driver to work reliably in Ubuntu 11.10 on a MacbookPro 8,1. The problem is that the driver seems to be losing connection very often, especially when I have multiple programs hitting the net. (s.a. Spotify, Firefox and Chrome), sometimes even causing kernel panics( pre kernel 3.2 final). I'm now using kernel 3.2 vanilla with compat-wireless-2012-01-03 compiled on top and I haven't gotten a kernel panic yet but I will post it if I do. I've also noticed that the less people in the office using WIFI, the more stable the connection is (there are ~25 people in the whole office using WIFI, 10 of them in the same room as me). Wicd reports between 80-100% signal strength and the encryption is WPA2 PSK. The AP is a PepWave AP One (3.1.0) and it is behind a wall, in a room 15ft away from my desk.
more info: $ uname -a: Linux geomas-MacBookPro 3.2.0-custom #2 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 5 11:14:09 PST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ sudo lspci -vvn|grep 43 -A7: 03:00.0 0280: 14e4:4331 (rev 02) Subsystem: 106b:00d6 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 256 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at a0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 dmesg: http://pastebin.com/0zAQzwVY kern.log: http://pastebin.com/Ncf21bWY Thank you for all the great work! George _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list b43-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev