Ehud Gavron wrote: > I wouldn't have said anything... but yours is running "fine" and mine's > running "very slowly." > > That's the same Dell card in my laptop, and I am running > 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6, which they indicate includes the 2.6.20.4 patches > (http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2817). > > The performance with the bcm43xx driver is clunky at best, and the > overall throughput as measured by various TCP utilities is around 160Kbps. > > The performance using ndiswrapper is 4Mbps (which is what Comcast claims > I have, so I can't really complain there). > > I can be seeing the clunky performance, and without stopping any > applications: > rmmod bcm43xx > modprobe ndiswrapper > dhclient wlan0 > and then the applications will continue where they left off (the TCP > connection is not terminated) and the performance is instantly improved. > > I can continue working and > rmmod ndiswrapper > modprobe bcm43xx > ifup eth1 > and the application will continue but in the slow performance mode. > > No messages occur at the kernel level or in syslog to indicate anything > unusual; the system has plenty of memory, CPU, etc. > Naturally my lspci -nv looks exactly the same as everyone else's. First > two lines included below sig. > > Thanks for any suggestions / hints / guesses you could help me with.
Use the very latest set of patches. The stuff that is coming with 2.6.21 changed my interface from working best at 1 Mbs to having the best throughput at 36 Mbs. It doesn't do as well as the Windows driver (ndiswrapper), but it isn't too far from it. My downlink from Time Warner is rated at & Mbs, but I have not yet found an external site that can saturate it. I get almost as good a throughput as my wired interface on a 100 Mps link. All of the changes that are in 2.6.21 can be found at the ftp site in the previous messages. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
