Public bug reported:
I have Hardy Beta with all updates applied to 27th March 2008
(Australian time). I have a Broadcom 4318 on an Asus A6Rp laptop.
lspci -vvnn | grep Broadcom
02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
Initially with the Beta release I couldn't get the firmware to update,
but found a bug report about it with a fix, which worked. Then network-
manager also had a problem and was updated, and now I can connect to my
WPA WLAN quite happily.
But network-manager reports that the connection speed is only at 1Mbps
or at 5Mbps. The speed is actually faster than that as I can get up to
about 1300 kbps (on a ADSL 2+ 24000kbps connection) off a local mirror
site, and about the same from my local NAS. This is consistent with what
I get from Gusty, which reports connection at 24Mbps using the bcm43xx
driver, and gave me pretty much the same speeds.
It seems the problem is with network-manager and b43 deciding on what
the connection speed actually is.
Also, network-manager reports the signal strength properly, as with
Gusty I was getting 50-60% reported, with Hardy I am getting 90-95%
reporting, which is correct.
Hamish
** Affects: b43-fwcutter (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Hardy Beta - b43 operating at 1Mbps or 5Mbps
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207463
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