Ehud Gavron wrote: > Since those changes are in the fedora-netdev repo, I downloaded that > kernel* and performance jumped to over 7Mbps to outside testing places. > Wow! Nice job guys! > > Thanks for the advice, Larry, and thanks for the hard work from the > development and spec teams! > > Ehud > > *ok, it wasn't quite that simple because I have an Nvidia video card. > First I downloaded kernel 2.6.20-1.2933.4.4.netdev.8.fc6, which replaced > my 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 (from fedora-updates repo). > No more usable video because of the Nvidia kernel module, but I could > verify that bcm43xx worked like a charm. > Downloaded the kernel source RPM. Changed the kernel ID from "-prep" to > "-1.2933.fc6", built, installed, and now everything works like a > charm... the bcm4311 card is running like a rocket... my Nvidia > proprietary kernel module binary is loading... and life is good. In > short, again, THANKS! I only mention the story so that other people > tempted to just download the kernel will consider whether they too have > to put up with vendors who are so shortsighted as to release binary-only > modules requiring those of us who want to use their product (or have no > choice, depending on circumstance) with the latest and greatest kernel...
I'm glad that someone else is getting the same kind of performance that I am. I wondered if I had forgotten to include something in the code. I too have an Nvidia graphics card, but I don't want to taint my kernel. That would hamper my reporting of kernel bugs. I also have no need for 3-D acceleration; therefore, I use the 2-D accelerator in X. It gives satisfactory performance; however, I did need to disable the hardware-mouse option as it prevented my laptop from suspending. Thank you for the kind words. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
