On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 22:21 +0100, Gavin Ford wrote: > I've had a few problems since upgrading to Hardy, now I've got most of them > sorted I thought it would be helpful to share the solutions I've found. > > > > Broadcom WiFi was slow and unreliable > This was down to defaulting to the Open Source Broadcom driver, which is > cripplingly slow and seemed to just plain stop in the middle of transfers. > Hopefully this will get better in future, but it's no use to me at the moment. > > Simple solution was to disable the Free driver, then reinstall NDISwrapper. > Speeds climbed back from 60kB/s to 700kB/s on FTPs about the LAN. Much > better. > > Useful info on stopping the OSS driver and re-enabling NDISwrapper here: > http://www.ubuntu1501.com/2008/04/ndiswrapper-in-hardy-heron.html >
I had this problem too, but today there was a kernel update to 2.6.24-17 that fixed the problem for me. Peace, Seif A. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
