As noted in this list earlier today, there is now a patch that makes PCI-E interfaces work. It has only been tested with Dell Wireless 1390 cards (BCM4311), but should also work for BCM4312s. The receive level for the 4311 is excellent, but the transmit levels are very weak. Copying of a test file of mine takes 7 sec. with a BCM4306. With the BCM4311, it takes a little over 3 minutes given the retransmits, etc. Now that the card works (?), my next step is to try to find why the radio has such low power.
I just ordered additional memory for my laptop and will concentrate on the RAM > 1GB problem for cards with 30-bit DMA. I tried to debug this remotely, but didn't get very far. The corrected PCI-E patches have been uploaded to ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches. There are versions for 2.6.18 and 2.6.19. That site also has the patches needed to operate the hardware radio enable switch and the associated LED. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
