On Saturday 9 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: > Hi > check this link, > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Dell_Inspiron_1520#Wireless_Network > > It says that > <snip> > You should install the Windows driver from Dell if you would like to > take advantage of the full bandwith of your WLAN card (meaning 54 > MBit/s). !!FIXME!! If you would like to use the kernel driver, > probably you can but only with limited (11 MBit/s) bandwith. > </snip>
Uhm, the b43 page does not mention this. I guess you just have to try and see. Personally, I always prefer in-kernel drivers rather than external when possible, especially in this case where the external driver is actually a kludge around windows drivers. > BTW, > I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my > second priority. As I said before, I did not have any problem (unfortunately, I cannot access the hardware now and check the bandwidth issue). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
