krop wrote: > Le Wednesday 02 April 2008 20:50:59 Larry Finger, vous avez écrit : >> The rev 02 BCM4306 cards that use b43legacy had much more of their >> initialization done from the host and less done by the hardware (or by >> the firmware). As a result, the performance is much more dependent on >> the specs as determined by the RE team. In particular, OFDM rates are >> quite low. I plan to revisit this code from the Broadcom drivers to >> see if it can be improved. >> >> As an intermediate test, does bcm43xx work better than b43legacy? If >> so, I will check what might have changed. >> >> Larry > > Could the problem I reported a few days ago with a bcm4306 rev. 03 be related > ? (I can't physically put my computer close to my DSL box/wifi router to > check). > > Someone on Ubuntu bug tracker reported something similar : > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/184976/comments/24 > > [quote] > Uninstalled bcm43xx-fwcutter and b43-fwcutter. Then installed b43-fwcutter > and > at the end loaded down and installed the b43-firmware. WLAN works but only > right next to my router. When the distance was higher (about 10m) then the > laptop wasn't able to connect. I found out that the signal was shown with a > quality of 85-95 % in the network-manager when the Laptop was right next to > my > router. > [endquote]
The rev 03 BCM4306 is quite different. It is unlikely that the same difficulties exist. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
