John H. wrote: > Did I misunderstand something? I thought some script was available or > some easy way to use either bcm43xx or the new one. brennan says he > has a script to just let you use the newer driver with higher mbps, > but I have never heard back from him. >
I have no idea what he is/was talking about. Until late yesterday, the best performance was with the unaltered bcm43xx, or the port of that driver to mac80211. Today, the changes now propagating through the system make bcm43xx-mac80211 into the preferred driver. You should ask Fedora how soon those will make it into their development kernels (called Rawhide?). If you want to use this new code now, you will need to use git to get the contents of Linville's wireless-dev tree and get the patches from the mailing list, or I can post them on my FTP site. If you can wait a day or so, Linville should incorporate those patches. In either case, the new version auto-scales the rate to 54M for most cards. Even the BCM4318, which has been the most trouble, gets up to 19 Mbs receiving, and 12 transmitting. The BCM4311 gets 20 Mbs in both directions. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
