On Friday 12 January 2007 21:26, Larry Finger wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Friday 12 January 2007 20:22, Larry Finger wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > It is the same problem as with the 4318 cards.
> > 
> 
> I think (and hope) so. I didn't get much time with the 4318 card before my 
> laptop died, and I have
> an Express Card slot on the new one, not a PCMCIA slot. Technology moves too 
> quickly sometimes. I
> can still test the 4318 in the old computer, but it won't be easy to debug 
> there.
> 
> Do you have any thoughts/tentative fixes?

At the moment I am working on the new LO stuff in my tree.
It's horribly broken, but that's the way to fix it.
It seems to be completely non-working on my 4318. Let's see why...
I think there are a bunch of typos in the magic PHY register stuff.
Sometimes a single swapped number makes the operation completely broken.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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