Andrig T. Miller wrote: > I booted a new Fedora kernel this morning, and it loaded the new b43 > driver, and I still had the v4 firmware in /lib/firmware. The first > time I connected it connected at 2 Mb/s, versus the 1 Mb/s that it used > to connect at. I had needed to reboot a second time for an unrelated > reason, and when it connected the next time I connected at 5 Mb/s, and I > have been happily using my internal Broadcom 4318 wireless networking > all day, without issue. > > Thanks for all the hard work, it is really paying off!
It is connecting at 1 Mbs every time, the increases are the natural ramp-up of the rates. Why it differed from boot to boot is probably a matter of when you happened to check and how many transmissions happened before you looked. If your V4 firmware is still in /lib/firmware, then the Fedora kernel is a little behind the wireless-dev tree. Once the code that uses the new naming scheme hits their kernel, your wireless will probably stop working. Be prepared. Yes, the new driver is very solid. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
