Re: RFT bcm43xx: Really _GOOD_ news

[Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>]

Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:18, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 14:34 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>>> I have really _GOOD_ news!!!!! While reviewing the latest changes in the V4 specs, I found an
>>> interchange of the PHY version and PHY revision fields, relative to the current V3 specs. Of the
>>> three cards that I have, the 4306 had the same value for the PHY version and revision. In addition,
>>> it was the only card of the 3 thaw would work at 11Mbs. A light went on!
>>>
>>> After installing the patch listed below, both my 4318 and my 4311 will now run at 11Mbs. From tests
>>> with iperf, I now get rates of 6.1 - 6.5 Mbs from all three.
>> I'm getting a sustained 1.7 megabytes per second over FTP with 4312
>> (PCIe card in Dell Latitude).  The connection to a 802.11g AP was
>> established instantaneously.
>>
>> I have never had much success with the softmac driver at all.  Now it's
>> working better than the d80211 driver, with waits for minutes before it
>> starts talking to the same 802.11g AP.
>>
>> I think it's a 2.6.20.1 material, considering its gain/changes ratio.
>> I'm actually going to compile this kernel without debug and keep it as a
>> "production" kernel.
>>
>> Congratulations and many many thanks!
> 
> I can confirm the driver works great with the patch!
> 
> Many thanks, Larry!

You are all very welcome.

Now that others have verified that the patch makes their system work, I will be submitting it for
wireless-2.6 that will get it into 2.6.21. I will also submit it to stable so it should be included
in 2.6.20.1 and 2.6.19.4.

Larry