Larry Finger 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 > _______________________________________________ > Bcm43xx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev > > The initial 5 patches have been applied already by John. There are only two patches left to apply. These patches are in the following thread.
[PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Make hwpctl optional (disabled by default) [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Remove the stackdump in rfatt/bbatt assertion -Jory _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
