With respect to the 4311, you will be happy to learn that one of the developers (me) now has one. It does not work with any of the mainline (2.6.20 or wireless-2.6) kernels, nor with stable (2.6.19). It does work with the wireless-dev git tree, and I am trying to find the critical differences between the two trees. When I get a fix, the patches will be posted here.
For what it's worth, I'm using the bcm43xx driver with wireless-2.6 on my HP laptop, which has a 4311 card, and it does work. It's not perfect... it is quite a slow connection (feels like 802.11b), and after some period of time the device always "resets" and I have to reboot the laptop, and trying to unload the module causes a crash. However, it does work. Note however that I did this quite a while ago now, I git-cloned wireless-2.6 and applied a couple of patches about 5 or 6 months ago. Once I got it working, I didn't keep trying new versions. (I find kernel development confusing enough that it takes a lot of energy for me to try development patches...) At this point I'd like to start trying again with the latest version of bcm43xx, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Anyways, just to say, wireless-2.6 with 4311 works for me. I don't get that DMA error you mentioned in the other thread. Oh, I should mention, the computer as a 64-bit 2xTurion CPU, but I'm actually running 32-bit Ubuntu, with firmware v3. Steve
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