I downloaded the source you linked and I get bitrate 24/mbs which I
assume should be fine for cable modem speed in the US?

bcm43xx is the driver being used.


/7/07, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
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