Hi all! I've been running the bcm43xx driver on a bcm4311 for a few weeks now. I'm using kubuntu, and have a homebaked 2.6.20 vanilla kernel with Larrys combined_2.6.20.patch. My laptop is a HP dv2140eu.
I've experienced a few oddities that follow. When returning from acpi sleep the computer often feezes. My solution is to run "modprobe -r bcm32xx" before suspend and then "modprobe bcm43xx" manually after resume. I can not do this in a script as this will hang the computer. Even if it's set as the last script. After modprobing the driver I need to run some iwconfig commands on the interface to bring it up. "iwconfig eth1 essid off" is sufficient. But it won't work until a few seconds after the driver is loaded. If I don't issue any iwconfig commands the device will never associate. I have burnt a few dvd-rw's over the network and the sustained speed is between 200-800kbyte regardless of rate. The thing is that after a while the throughput becomes zero and won't come back unless I unload and reload the driver again. With higher rates I get higher spikes, but overall it is the same throughput and the connection is more stable at 11 and 12M than 18 and 24. Anything above is very unstable. Note that I have no previous experience of wireless devices in linux, nor suspend/hibernate. Without your work and dedication I would never be able to run linux on this machine, so thank you for your effort and great work! Btw, do you take (monetary) donations, and if so, how is it spent? _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
