On Tuesday 14 November 2006 23:51, Joseph Jezak wrote: > Jory A. Pratt wrote: > > Well after doing a serious upgrade on my line I discovered just how > > bad off the bcm4318 truely is. I have a 3Mbp/s line and with bcm4318 I > > am lucky if I can utilize a 1/3rd of that. ( i.e <=1.0Mbps ) Those who > > have this card might want to concider throwing it in the trash, it does > > not work with dscape and softmac development is dead if you read > > Micheal's post to the mail list. ALL development should only be done on > > wireless-dev tree :/ . So for now I will stick with my wired ethernet > > just so I get to use what I pay for. > > > > Just figured I would let you all know how bad off the bcm4318 truely > > is right now :/ If your interested in testing your line results see > > www.2wire.com and run their "speed meter". > > > > Jory > > Honestly, what's the problem here? It's incredible that it works > even a little bit. That's better than it was before bcm43xx > existed. I don't see how you can claim that it's awful and that > we're not working on trying to make it better. Larry has done a lot > of work to keep the SoftMAC port working as best as possible and has > backported many of Michael's devicescape fixes. Just because > Michael isn't working on SoftMAC doesn't mean that it's useless.
In fact, there are a few damn hard to solve bugs in softmac. But that doesn't mean it's useless. It works correctly for, say 90% of the people. Nobody is going to fix this, because it will be fixed by the d80211 merge. If you want this fixed, step forward, please. 4318, well. I can't really understand why you are writing this mail. We _never_ claimed 4318 was supported. We _always_ said it only works by luck on lowest data rate. We are working on the issue. I committed some fixes for this to my development tree. These fixes don't quite work correctly, yet, but it's a step in the right direction. If you want 4318 support _now_, it's as "simple" as reading the specs and the driver and fixing the remaining bugs. If you don't want to do this, you'll have to wait until somebody else (me) continues on the issue. -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
