Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:02:51PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >> I recommend that bcm43xx be removed from the mainline kernels as of 2.6.25. >> I am confident that b43 >> and b43legacy are already better than any SoftMAC driver will ever be. > > b43 and b43legacy had never been in the main tree though (until the current > merge for 2.6.24), and considering that the current stable kernel (2.6.23) has > only bcm43xx I am afraid this might be too optimistic. > > I'll be really surprised to find I am the only one that is still using bcm43xx > with a bcm4306 card in a 2.6.22 kernel.
Of course you are not the only one using bcm43xx; however, when you make the switch to b43 you will be very happy with the improved stability, particularly in a crowded environment. SoftMAC is very easily confused when there is a lot of traffic, which requires unloading/reloading the driver, or a reboot. I could force this by doing an ssh login to my second machine and doing a git pull with both computers on the same AP. With mac80211, this configuration works perfectly. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
