Stephen Sinclair wrote: > 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.
No bcm43xx card works at higher than 11 MBs. Whenever any of the higher rates are selected, the TX signal strength drops considerably. > > 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...) As you have git cloned the wireless-2.6 tree, it is very simple to do a git pull to update your source. You really should do that as a number of bugs that would cause your crashes and hangs have been fixed in the past couple of months. > > 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. I'm pretty sure the problem is with the x86_64 version that I'm running. No interrupts are delivered to the software. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
