Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
John H. wrote: I spoke too soon. I just tried it again and it seemed stuck on 1 mb/s and there was an obvious difference in network speed. hmm. If you don't want the auto speed adjustment, or are unhappy with it, you can change the rate setting with the 'iwconfig eth1 rate Y' command. As your system seems not to auto-scale very well, I would try values for Y of 11M, 18M, 24M, 36M, 48M, and 54M (in that order). For each speed, try a ping flood against your AP (ping -f 192.168.1.1, or whatever address is shown as the gateway in a 'route -n' command). As long as you don't see a lot of dots from the flood, it is safe to try the next higher speed. Once you get a failure, you might want to back off one extra speed for safety. Have you tried changing the AP's channel, if possible? You might find less interference with a different setting. Does your location have any other 2.4 GHz devices like portable telephones or baby monitors, etc. They could interfere. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
John H. wrote: It seemed it had a more difficult time changing at one location 1.5 hours away with a different AP than the one i am back on now. right now it is up to 48mb/s automatically. Is it safe to assume future releases of f7 kernel rpm will have a workable driver such as -50 from rawhide does? I cannot speak for Fedora's kernel update policy. The changes that have been incorporated into the Rawhide kernels are now in the wireless-dev tree, and will become part of mainline eventually. Those changes will certainly be a part of F8. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
I upgraded as brennan requested, but iwconfig still lists bit rate as 1 mb/s:( On 8/10/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: I tried that:( Any chance of your script being out now so I can use the bcm43xx-mac80211?:) Sorry I haven't answered before, but I was out for the day. As you have seen, there is no script. In addition, the .bz2 file, although somewhat old, is reasonably current. The most significant change is the mainstream bcm43xx code turned out to be a typo in the specs and had to be reverted. As you learned, you need to get the Rawhide RPM and install it. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
oh wait, the bitrate seems to fluctuate. but a download of a file is working like the other bcm43xx driver. thanks On 8/13/07, John H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded as brennan requested, but iwconfig still lists bit rate as 1 mb/s:( On 8/10/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: I tried that:( Any chance of your script being out now so I can use the bcm43xx-mac80211?:) Sorry I haven't answered before, but I was out for the day. As you have seen, there is no script. In addition, the .bz2 file, although somewhat old, is reasonably current. The most significant change is the mainstream bcm43xx code turned out to be a typo in the specs and had to be reverted. As you learned, you need to get the Rawhide RPM and install it. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
John H. wrote: I upgraded as brennan requested, but iwconfig still lists bit rate as 1 mb/s:( If you are running bcm43xx-mac80211 from the Rawhide kernel, it will auto-scale the rate as best it can. Do you have interference? Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
I think it ended up working OK. It seems to scale, I just didn't notice that till later. thx!:) On 8/13/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: I upgraded as brennan requested, but iwconfig still lists bit rate as 1 mb/s:( If you are running bcm43xx-mac80211 from the Rawhide kernel, it will auto-scale the rate as best it can. Do you have interference? Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
I spoke too soon. I just tried it again and it seemed stuck on 1 mb/s and there was an obvious difference in network speed. hmm. On 8/13/07, John H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it ended up working OK. It seems to scale, I just didn't notice that till later. thx!:) On 8/13/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: I upgraded as brennan requested, but iwconfig still lists bit rate as 1 mb/s:( If you are running bcm43xx-mac80211 from the Rawhide kernel, it will auto-scale the rate as best it can. Do you have interference? Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
Larry, your driver seems to work pretty well, the bcm43xx one, however, sometimes I have to reboot to get it working right again(I just can't ping anything, etc). I was wondering if that file you linked to is updated often? On 8/8/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: I am using larry's .bz2 of bcm43xx and I get this ... wlan0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:Network4Home Nickname:Broadcom 4311 Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point:blah Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Link Quality=50/100 Signal level=-69 dBm Noise level=-71 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:11 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Is it possible to get 54mb/s? Should I care if it's mainly for residential cable modem right now? To get a setting of 54M, look at 'man iwconfig'. To get throughput at 54M, you need a different driver, and much better signal to noise! The highest residential cable rates in my area are 8Mbs down and 512Kbs up. Business rates ate 10 Mbs down and 2 Mbs up, but that costs a lot more. Your 24M setting should give you something in the range of 12Mbs throughput. You do the math. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
John H. wrote: Larry, your driver seems to work pretty well, the bcm43xx one, however, sometimes I have to reboot to get it working right again(I just can't ping anything, etc). I was wondering if that file you linked to is updated often? It gets updated when there is a change in the bcm43xx driver in mainline. Such changes have been infrequent of late as developer effort has gone toward getting bcm43xx-mac80211 up to snuff. It probably needs updating now as there have been some changes in softmac. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
as root modprobe -r bcm43xx modprobe bcm43xx then you dont need to reboot On 8/10/07, John H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry, your driver seems to work pretty well, the bcm43xx one, however, sometimes I have to reboot to get it working right again(I just can't ping anything, etc). I was wondering if that file you linked to is updated often? On 8/8/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: I am using larry's .bz2 of bcm43xx and I get this ... wlan0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:Network4Home Nickname:Broadcom 4311 Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point:blah Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Link Quality=50/100 Signal level=-69 dBm Noise level=-71 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:11 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Is it possible to get 54mb/s? Should I care if it's mainly for residential cable modem right now? To get a setting of 54M, look at 'man iwconfig'. To get throughput at 54M, you need a different driver, and much better signal to noise! The highest residential cable rates in my area are 8Mbs down and 512Kbs up. Business rates ate 10 Mbs down and 2 Mbs up, but that costs a lot more. Your 24M setting should give you something in the range of 12Mbs throughput. You do the math. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev -- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
I tried that:( Any chance of your script being out now so I can use the bcm43xx-mac80211?:) On 8/10/07, Brennan Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as root modprobe -r bcm43xx modprobe bcm43xx then you dont need to reboot On 8/10/07, John H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry, your driver seems to work pretty well, the bcm43xx one, however, sometimes I have to reboot to get it working right again(I just can't ping anything, etc). I was wondering if that file you linked to is updated often? On 8/8/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: I am using larry's .bz2 of bcm43xx and I get this ... wlan0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:Network4Home Nickname:Broadcom 4311 Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point:blah Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Link Quality=50/100 Signal level=-69 dBm Noise level=-71 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:11 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Is it possible to get 54mb/s? Should I care if it's mainly for residential cable modem right now? To get a setting of 54M, look at 'man iwconfig'. To get throughput at 54M, you need a different driver, and much better signal to noise! The highest residential cable rates in my area are 8Mbs down and 512Kbs up. Business rates ate 10 Mbs down and 2 Mbs up, but that costs a lot more. Your 24M setting should give you something in the range of 12Mbs throughput. You do the math. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev -- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
Is it from the same url, or what url to use to get the latest bcm43xx code with those changes? On 8/10/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: Larry, your driver seems to work pretty well, the bcm43xx one, however, sometimes I have to reboot to get it working right again(I just can't ping anything, etc). I was wondering if that file you linked to is updated often? It gets updated when there is a change in the bcm43xx driver in mainline. Such changes have been infrequent of late as developer effort has gone toward getting bcm43xx-mac80211 up to snuff. It probably needs updating now as there have been some changes in softmac. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
I guess I was asking.. ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/bcm43xx-softmac-sa.tar.bz2 Do I just get that again? It seems like it has not been updated for a few months, so I would guess not. I was just wondering if there's a bz2 file with the latest bcm43xx driver that you'd recommend. On 8/10/07, John H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it from the same url, or what url to use to get the latest bcm43xx code with those changes? On 8/10/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: Larry, your driver seems to work pretty well, the bcm43xx one, however, sometimes I have to reboot to get it working right again(I just can't ping anything, etc). I was wondering if that file you linked to is updated often? It gets updated when there is a change in the bcm43xx driver in mainline. Such changes have been infrequent of late as developer effort has gone toward getting bcm43xx-mac80211 up to snuff. It probably needs updating now as there have been some changes in softmac. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
On 8/10/07, John H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried that:( Any chance of your script being out now so I can use the bcm43xx-mac80211?:) On 8/10/07, Brennan Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as root modprobe -r bcm43xx modprobe bcm43xx then you dont need to reboot On 8/10/07, John H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry, your driver seems to work pretty well, the bcm43xx one, however, sometimes I have to reboot to get it working right again(I just can't ping anything, etc). I was wondering if that file you linked to is updated often? On 8/8/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: I am using larry's .bz2 of bcm43xx and I get this ... wlan0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:Network4Home Nickname:Broadcom 4311 Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point:blah Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Link Quality=50/100 Signal level=-69 dBm Noise level=-71 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:11 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Is it possible to get 54mb/s? Should I care if it's mainly for residential cable modem right now? To get a setting of 54M, look at 'man iwconfig'. To get throughput at 54M, you need a different driver, and much better signal to noise! The highest residential cable rates in my area are 8Mbs down and 512Kbs up. Business rates ate 10 Mbs down and 2 Mbs up, but that costs a lot more. Your 24M setting should give you something in the range of 12Mbs throughput. You do the math. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev -- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux The script that i was going to write is unnessisary, pull the latest kernel from Fedoras koji, see Jogn Linville's post. The new patches have been applied. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=13224 for the RPMS That should work, otherwise pull the new wireless-dev kernel source. -- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
On 8/10/07, John H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: doesn't that still require compiling another kernel? That's what we already discussed. I was looking for a simple driver to download to use the fedora kernels but a custom driver, like the bcm43xx i am currently using from larry. no, it is just like any other kernel update from fedora. It has already been compiled, all you need to do is install the RPM -- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
doesn't that still require compiling another kernel? That's what we already discussed. I was looking for a simple driver to download to use the fedora kernels but a custom driver, like the bcm43xx i am currently using from larry. On 8/10/07, Brennan Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/10/07, John H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried that:( Any chance of your script being out now so I can use the bcm43xx-mac80211?:) On 8/10/07, Brennan Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as root modprobe -r bcm43xx modprobe bcm43xx then you dont need to reboot On 8/10/07, John H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry, your driver seems to work pretty well, the bcm43xx one, however, sometimes I have to reboot to get it working right again(I just can't ping anything, etc). I was wondering if that file you linked to is updated often? On 8/8/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: I am using larry's .bz2 of bcm43xx and I get this ... wlan0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:Network4Home Nickname:Broadcom 4311 Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point:blah Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Link Quality=50/100 Signal level=-69 dBm Noise level=-71 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:11 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Is it possible to get 54mb/s? Should I care if it's mainly for residential cable modem right now? To get a setting of 54M, look at 'man iwconfig'. To get throughput at 54M, you need a different driver, and much better signal to noise! The highest residential cable rates in my area are 8Mbs down and 512Kbs up. Business rates ate 10 Mbs down and 2 Mbs up, but that costs a lot more. Your 24M setting should give you something in the range of 12Mbs throughput. You do the math. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev -- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux The script that i was going to write is unnessisary, pull the latest kernel from Fedoras koji, see Jogn Linville's post. The new patches have been applied. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=13224 for the RPMS That should work, otherwise pull the new wireless-dev kernel source. -- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
John H. wrote: I tried that:( Any chance of your script being out now so I can use the bcm43xx-mac80211?:) Sorry I haven't answered before, but I was out for the day. As you have seen, there is no script. In addition, the .bz2 file, although somewhat old, is reasonably current. The most significant change is the mainstream bcm43xx code turned out to be a typo in the specs and had to be reverted. As you learned, you need to get the Rawhide RPM and install it. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
Sorry work has been calling (very late nights from server migration), I will try to get the script going soon, as i need to upgrade to the new tree anyway. On 8/7/07, John H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did I misunderstand something? I thought some script was available or some easy way to use either bcm43xx or the new one. brennan says he has a script to just let you use the newer driver with higher mbps, but I have never heard back from him. On 8/3/07, John H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, please post such a script so I can use it and not need ndiswrapper anymore:) On 8/3/07, Brennan Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OP's meaning of this thread, which is that bcm43xx_mac80211 doesn't work well enough for him, has been lost. He wants bcm43xx (softmac)! One other option is to get the stand-alone version of bcm43xx from my FTP site (ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/bcm43xx-softmac-sa.tar.bz2), and build that. which is what the directions that i posted do, with the new version of bcm43xx_mac80211 it should work fine, that is what i have on F7 with the same card, and i am getting speeds over 1mb/s. This weekend, i could write a script to automate the process if people are interested. -- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux -- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
I am using larry's .bz2 of bcm43xx and I get this ... wlan0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:Network4Home Nickname:Broadcom 4311 Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point:blah Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Link Quality=50/100 Signal level=-69 dBm Noise level=-71 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:11 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Is it possible to get 54mb/s? Should I care if it's mainly for residential cable modem right now? On 8/8/07, John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 07:57:03PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: John H. wrote: Did I misunderstand something? I thought some script was available or some easy way to use either bcm43xx or the new one. brennan says he has a script to just let you use the newer driver with higher mbps, but I have never heard back from him. I have no idea what he is/was talking about. Until late yesterday, the best performance was with the unaltered bcm43xx, or the port of that driver to mac80211. Today, the changes now propagating through the system make bcm43xx-mac80211 into the preferred driver. You should ask Fedora how soon those will make it into their development kernels (called Rawhide?). Probably tonight. Maybe earlier if you watch Koji. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
John H. wrote: I am using larry's .bz2 of bcm43xx and I get this ... wlan0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:Network4Home Nickname:Broadcom 4311 Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point:blah Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Link Quality=50/100 Signal level=-69 dBm Noise level=-71 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:11 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Is it possible to get 54mb/s? Should I care if it's mainly for residential cable modem right now? To get a setting of 54M, look at 'man iwconfig'. To get throughput at 54M, you need a different driver, and much better signal to noise! The highest residential cable rates in my area are 8Mbs down and 512Kbs up. Business rates ate 10 Mbs down and 2 Mbs up, but that costs a lot more. Your 24M setting should give you something in the range of 12Mbs throughput. You do the math. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
Did I misunderstand something? I thought some script was available or some easy way to use either bcm43xx or the new one. brennan says he has a script to just let you use the newer driver with higher mbps, but I have never heard back from him. On 8/3/07, John H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, please post such a script so I can use it and not need ndiswrapper anymore:) On 8/3/07, Brennan Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OP's meaning of this thread, which is that bcm43xx_mac80211 doesn't work well enough for him, has been lost. He wants bcm43xx (softmac)! One other option is to get the stand-alone version of bcm43xx from my FTP site (ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/bcm43xx-softmac-sa.tar.bz2), and build that. which is what the directions that i posted do, with the new version of bcm43xx_mac80211 it should work fine, that is what i have on F7 with the same card, and i am getting speeds over 1mb/s. This weekend, i could write a script to automate the process if people are interested. -- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
John H. wrote: Did I misunderstand something? I thought some script was available or some easy way to use either bcm43xx or the new one. brennan says he has a script to just let you use the newer driver with higher mbps, but I have never heard back from him. I have no idea what he is/was talking about. Until late yesterday, the best performance was with the unaltered bcm43xx, or the port of that driver to mac80211. Today, the changes now propagating through the system make bcm43xx-mac80211 into the preferred driver. You should ask Fedora how soon those will make it into their development kernels (called Rawhide?). If you want to use this new code now, you will need to use git to get the contents of Linville's wireless-dev tree and get the patches from the mailing list, or I can post them on my FTP site. If you can wait a day or so, Linville should incorporate those patches. In either case, the new version auto-scales the rate to 54M for most cards. Even the BCM4318, which has been the most trouble, gets up to 19 Mbs receiving, and 12 transmitting. The BCM4311 gets 20 Mbs in both directions. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
I downloaded the source you linked and I get bitrate 24/mbs which I assume should be fine for cable modem speed in the US? bcm43xx is the driver being used. /7/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: Did I misunderstand something? I thought some script was available or some easy way to use either bcm43xx or the new one. brennan says he has a script to just let you use the newer driver with higher mbps, but I have never heard back from him. I have no idea what he is/was talking about. Until late yesterday, the best performance was with the unaltered bcm43xx, or the port of that driver to mac80211. Today, the changes now propagating through the system make bcm43xx-mac80211 into the preferred driver. You should ask Fedora how soon those will make it into their development kernels (called Rawhide?). If you want to use this new code now, you will need to use git to get the contents of Linville's wireless-dev tree and get the patches from the mailing list, or I can post them on my FTP site. If you can wait a day or so, Linville should incorporate those patches. In either case, the new version auto-scales the rate to 54M for most cards. Even the BCM4318, which has been the most trouble, gets up to 19 Mbs receiving, and 12 transmitting. The BCM4311 gets 20 Mbs in both directions. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
John H. wrote: I downloaded the source you linked and I get bitrate 24/mbs which I assume should be fine for cable modem speed in the US? bcm43xx is the driver being used. The rates I'm talking about are measured throughput between my notebooks and another computer on my LAN that has a wired connection to my router. With a Bit Rate of 24 Mbs set with iwconfig, you should get a transfer rate of about 12 Mbs. My cable runs at 8 Mbs download and 512 Kbs upload, and it is very easy for the wireless to go faster than the broadband connection. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
Larry Finger wrote: John H. wrote: Did I misunderstand something? I thought some script was available or some easy way to use either bcm43xx or the new one. brennan says he has a script to just let you use the newer driver with higher mbps, but I have never heard back from him. I have no idea what he is/was talking about. Until late yesterday, the best performance was with the unaltered bcm43xx, or the port of that driver to mac80211. Today, the changes now propagating through the system make bcm43xx-mac80211 into the preferred driver. You should ask Fedora how soon those will make it into their development kernels (called Rawhide?). If you want to use this new code now, you will need to use git to get the contents of Linville's wireless-dev tree and get the patches from the mailing list, or I can post them on my FTP site. If you can wait a day or so, Linville should incorporate those patches. In either case, the new version auto-scales the rate to 54M for most cards. Even the BCM4318, which has been the most trouble, gets up to 19 Mbs receiving, and 12 transmitting. The BCM4311 gets 20 Mbs in both directions. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev The initial 5 patches have been applied already by John. There are only two patches left to apply. These patches are in the following thread. [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Make hwpctl optional (disabled by default) [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Remove the stackdump in rfatt/bbattassertion -Jory ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
Jory A. Pratt wrote: The initial 5 patches have been applied already by John. There are only two patches left to apply. These patches are in the following thread. [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Make hwpctl optional (disabled by default) This is the biggie Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
So there's no way to use bcm43xx while using an rpm kernel? On 8/3/07, Brennan Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/2/07, John H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It blacklisted bcm43xx-mac80211 but it still loads anyway, and so does ndiswrapper, despite being blacklisted. so i renamed bcm43xx-mac80211.ko to bcm43xx-mac80211.bak and did the same for ndiswrapper and pasted what I got as a result on boot. Basically no wireless with just bcm43xx and softmac modules. On 8/3/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: I will send that in the next email. I am confused. I am using 2.6.22. Are you saying bcm43xx-mac80211 should not be bitrate limited then? uname -a Linux laptop 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 #1 SMP Fri Jul 27 18:10:34 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux No -bcm43xx-mac80211 does not work very well at the moment. If you had a real 2.6.22 distribution, it would work. What Fedora did was strip out the PCI ID's from bcm43xx for all the 802.11g-compatible devices and force you to use bcm43xx-mac80211. If you get a new copy of the source, configure it for softmac and bcm43xx, it will work. The script I sent you should have blacklisted bcm43xx-mac80211 and installed the PCI ID for your device. It seems that it didn't work. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev try what i have posted earlier, http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2007-July/004985.html -- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
John H. wrote: So there's no way to use bcm43xx while using an rpm kernel? The script I sent you was supposed to make it possible. I'm not a Fedora user so I cannot help that much. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
Brennan Ashton wrote: Failing that, you can just rebuild the bcm43xx module _without_ the PCI IDs removed -- there's no reason for you to rebuild the whole kernel. Except to keep up with current patches in the whole wireless system, and enable more debugging as this is still very much in development. By rebuilding the whole thing, he can use bcm43xx_mac80211 The OP's meaning of this thread, which is that bcm43xx_mac80211 doesn't work well enough for him, has been lost. He wants bcm43xx (softmac)! One other option is to get the stand-alone version of bcm43xx from my FTP site (ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/bcm43xx-softmac-sa.tar.bz2), and build that. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
John H. wrote: So there's no way to use bcm43xx while using an rpm kernel? There is a way to use any driver with the rpm kernel, as long as it does not require some deeper patching of the kernel. The old bcm43xx driver should compile just fine as a separate directory (if bcm43xx-mac80211 could be applied like this, I would surely test it as well). You need the kernel-devel package for your kernel and replace the stock module with your newly built one. Not exact procedure of building a single module: LINUXDIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r` make SUBDIRS=my/module/path modules (Don't have the exact details at hand just now,sorry) What is the status of AP mode with the mac80211 driver? -Martti. On 8/3/07, Brennan Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try what i have posted earlier, http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2007-July/004985.html -- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 10:19 +0300, John H. wrote: So there's no way to use bcm43xx while using an rpm kernel? Yes, of course there is. You just have to add the PCI ID of your own card by echoing it to /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bcm43xx/new_id I just have this in /etc/rc.local: /sbin/modprobe bcm43xx echo 14e4 4320 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bcm43xx/new_id Failing that, you can just rebuild the bcm43xx module _without_ the PCI IDs removed -- there's no reason for you to rebuild the whole kernel. -- dwmw2 ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
yes, please post such a script so I can use it and not need ndiswrapper anymore:) On 8/3/07, Brennan Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OP's meaning of this thread, which is that bcm43xx_mac80211 doesn't work well enough for him, has been lost. He wants bcm43xx (softmac)! One other option is to get the stand-alone version of bcm43xx from my FTP site (ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/bcm43xx-softmac-sa.tar.bz2), and build that. which is what the directions that i posted do, with the new version of bcm43xx_mac80211 it should work fine, that is what i have on F7 with the same card, and i am getting speeds over 1mb/s. This weekend, i could write a script to automate the process if people are interested. -- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
John H. wrote:
I cannot find the site of which you speak.
I can't seem to get it to let me use only bcm43xx and not bcm43xx-mac80211.
Also, which firmware here is v3?
If you run this script by John Linville, your system will use bcm43xx. It will
also download and
install the V3 firmware.
Larry
=
#!/bin/sh
BCM43XX_V3_FW=http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o;
wget $BCM43XX_V3_FW
bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware -p .v3 wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
echo 'blacklist bcm43xx-mac80211' /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
echo 'options bcm43xx fwpostfix=.v3' /etc/modprobe.conf
modprobe -r bcm43xx-mac80211 # remove the new driver
echo 'modprobe bcm43xx' /etc/rc.local
BCM43XX_PCI_ID=`lspci -n | awk '$2 ~ ^0280 $3 ~ ^14e4:43 { print $3 }' |
sed -e 's/:/ /'`
echo 'echo '$BCM43XX_PCI_ID' /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bcm43xx/new_id' \
/etc/rc.local
/etc/rc.local
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Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
I did what you suggested and just bcm43xx is loaded, but it does
nothing. It creates no wireless interface.
dmesg
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
bcm43xx driver
lsmod |grep bcm
bcm43xx 420705 0
ieee80211softmac 35265 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 35593 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
You said that I could compile my own kernel to fix the bitrate issue
with bcm43xx-mac80211. Is that to say as of kernel 2.6.23 or so the
bitrate issue will be fixed?
On 8/2/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John H. wrote:
I cannot find the site of which you speak.
I can't seem to get it to let me use only bcm43xx and not bcm43xx-mac80211.
Also, which firmware here is v3?
If you run this script by John Linville, your system will use bcm43xx. It
will also download and
install the V3 firmware.
Larry
=
#!/bin/sh
BCM43XX_V3_FW=http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o;
wget $BCM43XX_V3_FW
bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware -p .v3 wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
echo 'blacklist bcm43xx-mac80211' /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
echo 'options bcm43xx fwpostfix=.v3' /etc/modprobe.conf
modprobe -r bcm43xx-mac80211 # remove the new driver
echo 'modprobe bcm43xx' /etc/rc.local
BCM43XX_PCI_ID=`lspci -n | awk '$2 ~ ^0280 $3 ~ ^14e4:43 { print $3 }'
| sed -e 's/:/ /'`
echo 'echo '$BCM43XX_PCI_ID' /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bcm43xx/new_id' \
/etc/rc.local
/etc/rc.local
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Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
John H. wrote: I did what you suggested and just bcm43xx is loaded, but it does nothing. It creates no wireless interface. dmesg ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcm43xx driver lsmod |grep bcm bcm43xx 420705 0 ieee80211softmac 35265 1 bcm43xx ieee80211 35593 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac You said that I could compile my own kernel to fix the bitrate issue with bcm43xx-mac80211. Is that to say as of kernel 2.6.23 or so the bitrate issue will be fixed? It works with 2.6.22 or later. What does 'dmesg | grep bcm43xx' show? I would also like to see the output of 'iwconfig' and 'ifconfig'. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
I will send that in the next email. I am confused. I am using 2.6.22. Are you saying bcm43xx-mac80211 should not be bitrate limited then? uname -a Linux laptop 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 #1 SMP Fri Jul 27 18:10:34 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux On 8/3/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: I did what you suggested and just bcm43xx is loaded, but it does nothing. It creates no wireless interface. dmesg ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcm43xx driver lsmod |grep bcm bcm43xx 420705 0 ieee80211softmac 35265 1 bcm43xx ieee80211 35593 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac You said that I could compile my own kernel to fix the bitrate issue with bcm43xx-mac80211. Is that to say as of kernel 2.6.23 or so the bitrate issue will be fixed? It works with 2.6.22 or later. What does 'dmesg | grep bcm43xx' show? I would also like to see the output of 'iwconfig' and 'ifconfig'. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
bcm43xx driver iwconfig says no wireless device, and ifconfig, even with ifconfig -a, shows no wlan0. On 8/3/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: I did what you suggested and just bcm43xx is loaded, but it does nothing. It creates no wireless interface. dmesg ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcm43xx driver lsmod |grep bcm bcm43xx 420705 0 ieee80211softmac 35265 1 bcm43xx ieee80211 35593 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac You said that I could compile my own kernel to fix the bitrate issue with bcm43xx-mac80211. Is that to say as of kernel 2.6.23 or so the bitrate issue will be fixed? It works with 2.6.22 or later. What does 'dmesg | grep bcm43xx' show? I would also like to see the output of 'iwconfig' and 'ifconfig'. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
John H. wrote: I will send that in the next email. I am confused. I am using 2.6.22. Are you saying bcm43xx-mac80211 should not be bitrate limited then? uname -a Linux laptop 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 #1 SMP Fri Jul 27 18:10:34 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux No -bcm43xx-mac80211 does not work very well at the moment. If you had a real 2.6.22 distribution, it would work. What Fedora did was strip out the PCI ID's from bcm43xx for all the 802.11g-compatible devices and force you to use bcm43xx-mac80211. If you get a new copy of the source, configure it for softmac and bcm43xx, it will work. The script I sent you should have blacklisted bcm43xx-mac80211 and installed the PCI ID for your device. It seems that it didn't work. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
It blacklisted bcm43xx-mac80211 but it still loads anyway, and so does ndiswrapper, despite being blacklisted. so i renamed bcm43xx-mac80211.ko to bcm43xx-mac80211.bak and did the same for ndiswrapper and pasted what I got as a result on boot. Basically no wireless with just bcm43xx and softmac modules. On 8/3/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: I will send that in the next email. I am confused. I am using 2.6.22. Are you saying bcm43xx-mac80211 should not be bitrate limited then? uname -a Linux laptop 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 #1 SMP Fri Jul 27 18:10:34 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux No -bcm43xx-mac80211 does not work very well at the moment. If you had a real 2.6.22 distribution, it would work. What Fedora did was strip out the PCI ID's from bcm43xx for all the 802.11g-compatible devices and force you to use bcm43xx-mac80211. If you get a new copy of the source, configure it for softmac and bcm43xx, it will work. The script I sent you should have blacklisted bcm43xx-mac80211 and installed the PCI ID for your device. It seems that it didn't work. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
On 8/2/07, John H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It blacklisted bcm43xx-mac80211 but it still loads anyway, and so does ndiswrapper, despite being blacklisted. so i renamed bcm43xx-mac80211.ko to bcm43xx-mac80211.bak and did the same for ndiswrapper and pasted what I got as a result on boot. Basically no wireless with just bcm43xx and softmac modules. On 8/3/07, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John H. wrote: I will send that in the next email. I am confused. I am using 2.6.22. Are you saying bcm43xx-mac80211 should not be bitrate limited then? uname -a Linux laptop 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 #1 SMP Fri Jul 27 18:10:34 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux No -bcm43xx-mac80211 does not work very well at the moment. If you had a real 2.6.22 distribution, it would work. What Fedora did was strip out the PCI ID's from bcm43xx for all the 802.11g-compatible devices and force you to use bcm43xx-mac80211. If you get a new copy of the source, configure it for softmac and bcm43xx, it will work. The script I sent you should have blacklisted bcm43xx-mac80211 and installed the PCI ID for your device. It seems that it didn't work. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev try what i have posted earlier, http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2007-July/004985.html -- Brennan Ashton Bellingham, Washington The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s
John H. wrote: Please tell me I can get more than 1mb/s. Otherwise I will have to use ndiswrapper:( lsmod |grep bcm bcm43xx_mac80211 400289 0 ssb34757 1 bcm43xx_mac80211 mac80211 147017 2 rc80211_simple,bcm43xx_mac80211 uname -a Linux laptop 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 #1 SMP Fri Jul 27 18:10:34 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux iwconfig shows wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:notnetwurk Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: ?? Bit Rate=1 Mb/s On the Fedora Web site is information on how to use the older bcm43xx, not the bcm43xx-mac80211, driver with V3 firmware. That driver is capable of much greater throughput. Your alternative is to build your own kernel from source. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
