Thanks. I was looking for some binary solution for now, as my fedora kernel is Linux laptop 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Mar 19 11:38:26 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
And I have stopped compiling own kernels due to lack of time. However, it seems that is not possible. Thanks though. On 4/8/07, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 04:05 -0500, John H. wrote: > >> Thanks. > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03201.html > > > > That's not the one I was thinking of, does it apply? Look for his > > combined patches. > > > >> I am assuming that one is enough for the speed difference? > > > > Don't really know. > > > >> Will these > >> patches be in next kernel releases? > > > > Yeah, should already be if you use .21-rc6 or so. > > The patch that makes the biggest change in speed is in 2.6.21-rc1 and later. > There are additional > improvements that won't be in mainline until 2.6.22-rc1. This is a > consequence of the development > model for Linux. Once a new release is available, there is a period (usually > 2 weeks) where any new > features and code enhancements are accepted. Once the -rc1 stage is reached, > only bug fixes are > accepted. Any feature enhancements such as an updating of the specifications > are not considered a > bug fix unless they fix a kernel crash. As you can imagine, there are usually > code improvements that > miss the window, thus are waiting to be included in mainline. These are > always available at > ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches in the form of a patch file named > combined_2.6.xx.y.patch. The > code base in Linville's wireless-2.6 git tree is usually up to date as well. > > BTW, my 4311 gets download speeds of up to 1700 Mbs and uploads of 750 Mbs. > We still have room for > improvement as Windows gets an upload of 1900 Mbs, but at least the 4311 is > faster than my broadband > line with 7 Mbs down and 0.5 Mbs up. > > Larry > _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
