On Tuesday 03 February 2009 20:41:06 Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 20:16 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 05:44:42 Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > > The bad news is that throughput still sucks rocks. > > Sorry if that sounded harsh. It didn't seem as harsh when I was writing > it as it did just now reading it. I meant no ill-will in any way by it. > Just trying to be frank I guess. I'm not known for beating around the > bush. :-) > > > This is unlikely to change ever, except if broadcom releases the sources. > > OK. That's fair enough. I was just trying to supply some feedback in > case it was in fact unexpected. I thought full throughput was being > targeted by the current reverse engineering effort.
No. 802.11g-PHY support is defacto not developed anymore in b43. We're currently working on 802.11g-LP-PHY and 802.11n. > I can totally understand if it will never be achieved. Well, the problem is that nobody understands what the code does. So it's simply unlikely that somebody will find the bugs by just looking at the code. So there are only two choices: 1) Somebody who reverse engineered the code will check the open code for bugs (once again). -> This is not going to happen. 2) Broadcom releases sources and somebody ports it to b43. So well. b43 in AP mode does actually work properly. I use it in AP mode, too. But it's of no use, if you need huge throughput. If you just want to surf the internet, it's good enough most of the time. I get about 1MByte/sec on my 4318. That's enough for websurfing. Big files are transferred over the gbit ethernet anyway. > > Go and buy a device that's actually vendor supported, if you want full > > throughput. > > Yeah. Given that it's got a minipci slot in it, maybe an atheros or > something. Atheros is the best bet, I'd say. But _first_ check to buy a supported card. > I did in fact buy an ipw2200 based card "on spec" hoping to ipw2200? Come on. You want to make me puke. :) That's a _lot_ worse than any broadcom card (even those bcm cards that don't work at all). It's the biggest pile of crap ever built. :) The ipw2200 doesn't even work correctly in STA mode. No chance for AP ever. BTW: Anybody want an almost unused ipw2200? You get it for free from me. :) -- Greetings, Michael. _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
