On 8/10/07, John H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried that:( > > Any chance of your script being out now so I can use the bcm43xx-mac80211?:) > > On 8/10/07, Brennan Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > as root > > modprobe -r bcm43xx > > modprobe bcm43xx > > > > then you dont need to reboot > > > > On 8/10/07, John H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Bcm43xx-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev > > > > > > > > > -- > > Brennan Ashton > > Bellingham, Washington > > > > "The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux" > > > The script that i was going to write is unnessisary, pull the latest kernel from Fedoras koji, see Jogn Linville's post. The new patches have been applied. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=13224 for the RPMS That should work, otherwise pull the new wireless-dev kernel source.
-- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington "The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux" _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
