From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 15:10:38 +0200 Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_b43_and_late_2008_model_Apple_MacBook_=E2=80=94_Look_m?= =?UTF-8?Q?a=2C_no_wires=21_=3A=2D=29?= In-Reply-To: <4DEADFBC.3000100@gentoo.org> References: <4DEAC8FE.5010502@gentoo.org> <4DEACA37.4080905@gentoo.org> <4DEACFD9.6020004@lwfinger.net> <4DEAD567.2050608@gentoo.org> <4DEADFBC.3000100@gentoo.org> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org 2011/6/5 Stuart Longland : > > 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 >> 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. Status is quite nice described on our wiki page [0]. It really says support for your chipset is experimental only in 2.6.38 :) [0] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 -- Rafa?