John Pierce wrote: > Ok, I have been trying to make heads or tails of it, which driver do I > need to use for the broadcom 4311 dell wlan 1390. > > Is it b43 or bcm43xx? I have just upgraded a fedora 7 installation to > 2.6.22.4-65 and want to give the native driver a try again.
You may use either one. The driver supported by mainstream kernels is bcm43xx, which uses SoftMAC as its MAC layer. The driver named b43, which uses mac80211 as its MAC layer, will be replacing bcm43xx in mainstream in the coming months. If that F7 kernel offers b43 as an option, use it. The performance of the two drivers is essentially the same; however, the stability and flexibility of mac80211 is a great improvement over SoftMAC. For completeness, there is yet another driver for the BCM43xx chips that is named b43legacy. It is used for any 802.11b cards/chips and for one older variant of the BCM4306 802.11g chip. If you happen to see a reference to bcm43xx-mac80211, that is the old name for b43. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
