I am using the wireless-dev kernel tree (2.6.21-rc6) on a PowerBook G4. 
I have a few questions about the bcm43xx-mac80211 driver that is in this 
kernel:

- apparently the latest wireless-tools package (29-pre17) is not even 
new enough for this driver (version 22 of WE for the driver vs. version 
21 for the userland tools). I don't see the bitrate in the output of 
iwconfig. How can I find out the current bitrate that I am connected at?

- any hope of making this driver work with NetworkManager? When I use it 
  NetworkManager doesn't see any wireless devices, but I've been 
connected  to my residential wireless network (WPA-Enterprise/TKIP) for 
a few minutes via wpa_supplicant and Debian's /etc/network/interfaces 
infrastructure with no major issues.

Also if someone could explain the device naming logic to me--I have a 
'eth2' that doesn't do anything and a wlan0_rename device that seems to 
be the wireless device--I'd appreciate it too. With the mainline bcm43xx 
my wireless radio was 'eth2' and there was no 'wlan0_rename'.

Thanks in advance and great work on getting the Broadcom chips to work 
in Linux.

Regards,
Andrew Barr
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