From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:19:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D2398D.7050104@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070213211340.GG3572@tuxdriver.com>
John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 05:41:06PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>> Miles Lane wrote:
>>> I am testing this patch applied to the wireless-net git tree.
>>> The card is a Linksys WPC54G. The card is still getting very
>>> weak signal strength and the connection seems unresponsive
>>> most of the time.
>> As the subject says, the patch was for 4311 and 4312 cards. The 4318's are not yet fixed.
>>
>> As measured by my RF receiver, the amplitude of the 4318 is about -70 dBm, the 4311 is about -60 dBm
>> and the 4306 is -50 dBm. All should have the -50 reading with my test setup.
>>
>> I'm working on the power routines and will let you know.
>
> FWIW, this patch seems to have helped some BCM4311 and BCM4312 wielding
> Fedora users.
I think most, if not all, the 4311 and 4312's are helped. I will be submitting a set of patches this
afternoon that help most cards.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-13 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-07 6:02 RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312 Larry Finger
2007-02-07 6:34 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-02-07 13:43 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-07 13:53 ` Larry Finger
2007-02-10 23:30 ` Miles Lane
2007-02-10 23:41 ` Larry Finger
2007-02-13 21:13 ` John W. Linville
2007-02-13 22:19 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2007-02-13 23:36 ` Stephen Sinclair
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