Hi, It seems that I have not received any reply to my original post, so I'm trying again ;-)
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Olivier Fourdan <four...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am experiencing very poor network performance using the b34 module > with a Broadcom BCM4306 revision 3 (the system is a Compaq HP R3000 > laptop) > > The download transfer rate goes from a few bytes to 20Kb/s at max > whereas it commonly reached 200Kb under Windows or on the other > laptops in the hose (using Intel chipset under Linux, for example). > The connection is so unstable that it's causing timeouts during wget > downloads, and makes that system under Linux basically unusable... > > The problem is not exactly new and apparently been reported several > times on various forums (mostly Ubuntu) though the problem is not > distro specific (I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora, from x86_64 to i386 > and the problem remains). I checked in the archives and found some > similar problems but no solution. > > The connection is using basic WEP encryption, wpa_supplicant involved. It should read *no* wpa_supplicant involved > The router is a Netgear WGR614 v7. > > * uname -a > Linux r3000 2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 1 22:42:50 EST > 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux > > * lspci -vvn|grep 43 -A7 > 02:02.0 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 03) > Subsystem: 103c:12fa > Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- > Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > Latency: 64 > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 > Region 0: Memory at e0104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] > Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge > Kernel modules: ssb > > 02:04.0 0607: 104c:ac54 (rev 01) > Subsystem: 103c:006d > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- > Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > Latency: 168, Cache Line Size: 128 bytes > > * dmesg > (attached) I should add that I can do testing as needed or report any missing information. I've tried disabling various options (starting with qos) w/out any noticeable improvement unfortunately. Any idea? Thanks in advance, Olivier. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
