From: Stuart Longland <redhatter@gentoo.org>
To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: b43 and late 2008 model Apple MacBook — Look ma, no wires! :-)
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:45:32 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DEADFBC.3000100@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DEAD567.2050608@gentoo.org>
On 06/05/11 11:01, Stuart Longland wrote:
> On 06/05/11 10:37, Larry Finger wrote:
>> Coverage of the "n" devices with b43 did not become very good until
>> 2.6.39 and those changes were too invasive to be backported to earlier
>> kernels. Using the git tree from wireless-testing should work.
>
> Ahh okay, so an update to the kernel will be worthwhile...
> I shall do a pull of the relevant git tree and see how it goes.
It seems to be actually working now...
> stuartl at vk4msl-mb ~ $ /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 ; /sbin/iwconfig wlan0
> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:6c:83:b6:b7
> inet addr:192.168.64.45 Bcast:192.168.64.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: 2001:388:d000:1100:223:6cff:fe83:b6b7/64 Scope:Global
> inet6 addr: fe80::223:6cff:fe83:b6b7/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:561 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:687 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:281615 (275.0 KiB) TX bytes:99282 (96.9 KiB)
>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"longlandclan"
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:60:64:28:74:1C
> Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
> Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=0 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:60 Missed beacon:0
Kernel is:
> commit 3f83d64e768605b9f7a8d5d06c3ae04c94209aa1
> Merge: e1ec677 805a3b8
> Author: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> Date: Fri Jun 3 16:00:09 2011 -0400
>
> Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
> 2011-06-05 11:44:08 (3.03 MB/s) - `/home/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.36.tar.bz2' saved [70277083/70277083]
About what I'd expect for a 54Mbps link.
Thanks for the assistance. Hopefully this thread helps the next person
looking for wifi on similar machines.
Regards,
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-05 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-05 0:08 b43 and late 2008 model Apple MacBook Stuart Longland
2011-06-05 0:13 ` Stuart Longland
2011-06-05 0:37 ` Larry Finger
2011-06-05 1:01 ` Stuart Longland
2011-06-05 1:45 ` Stuart Longland [this message]
2011-06-05 13:07 ` b43 and late 2008 model Apple MacBook — Look ma, no wires! :-) Larry Finger
2011-06-05 13:10 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-06-05 22:51 ` Stuart Longland
2011-06-14 10:23 ` David Woodhouse
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