Larry, your driver seems to work pretty well, the bcm43xx one,
however, sometimes I have to reboot to get it working right again(I
just can't ping anything, etc).

I was wondering if that file you linked to is updated often?

On 8/8/07, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John H. wrote:
> > I am using larry's .bz2 of bcm43xx and I get this ...
> >
> > wlan0     IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:"Network4Home"  Nickname:"Broadcom 4311"
> >           Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.437 GHz  Access Point:blah
> >           Bit Rate=24 Mb/s   Tx-Power=18 dBm
> >           RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
> >           Link Quality=50/100  Signal level=-69 dBm  Noise level=-71 dBm
> >           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:11  Rx invalid frag:0
> >           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> >
> >
> > Is it possible to get 54mb/s?  Should I care if it's mainly for
> > residential cable modem right now?
>
> To get a setting of 54M, look at 'man iwconfig'. To get throughput at 54M, 
> you need a different
> driver, and much better signal to noise! The highest residential cable rates 
> in my area are 8Mbs
> down and 512Kbs up. Business rates ate 10 Mbs down and 2 Mbs up, but that 
> costs a lot more. Your 24M
> setting should give you something in the range of 12Mbs throughput. You do 
> the math.
>
> Larry
>
>
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