On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Alexander Koeppe wrote:
> I'm using Gentoo Linux (2.6.23) on a Apple iBook and was very happy that
> my wireless chip is supported.
> After installation everything seems to be OK and working fine.
> But when the distance to my AP ascends to more than 4 meters, the
> connection seems to be down or unstable. Sometimes its also unstable at
> a distance of 2 meters.
> I also changed the transmission channel on my AP without result.
Are you using the bcm43xx driver? If so, you might want to try downloading
the wireless-2.6 kernel tree and compiling the b43 driver which now
supercedes bcm43xx and is considerably more stable.
# get a copy of the tree
git clone
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git
cd wireless-2.6
# checkout all the other stuff
git checkout -b everything
# copy your existing kernel config
cp /boot/configxxxxxxxxx .config
make menuconfig
# make sure the bcm driver is configured as a module
make
sudo make install
though there may be a tidier way to compile kernels into packages on
gentoo, I'm not sure.
Then you need to follow the firmware installation procedure for b43 (which
uses a different cutter program and a newer firmware).
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
Gavin
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