Hello! On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 13:53 -0600, Oscar A. Valdez wrote: > Sorry to post to this list, but the support forum at > http://bcm43xx.spugna.org/ is never up. > > I understand that the 11Mb/s limitation is imposed by softmac, and that > the mac80211 module removes that limitation.
I'm afraid you are wrong about it. In fact, the softmac based driver is supporting rates up to 54 Mbps, although 48 and 54 Mbps rates are not working well. 24 Mbps is working really well for me. There is no speed limitation in softmac. The limitations are hardware specific. The mac80211 based driver has some issues with power calibration, so it works better if the rate is limited. Larry posted a patch recently that makes the rate start at 1 Mbps and then go up if the connection is good. That helps a lot. > Is the mac80211 module generally available for use with bcm43xx? If so, > how? I've researched the matter, but haven't figured it out. Yes, the module is present in the wireless-dev git repository. It's not yet in any released version of Linux. I think it may go to 2.6.22, but I'm not sure. It's entirely possible that only those drivers will be submitted that are more stable and offer support to the hardware not supported otherwise. We'll find out very soon, when Linux 2.6.22-rc1 is released. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
