From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: N-PHY: enable support for PHYs rev 3 and higher
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:19:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2364A9.3050707@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110104181140.GC11333@tuxdriver.com>
On 01/04/2011 12:11 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 10:08:36AM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>> On 01/04/2011 09:50 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>> W dniu 21 grudnia 2010 21:29 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki
>>> <zajec5@gmail.com> napisał:
>>>> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> John: can we still make it for 2.6.38 merge? It was tested with 14e4:432b,
>>>> support seems to be on the same level as for PHYs 1 and 2.
>>>
>>> John, I dont see patches for rev3+ in wireless-testing. Any problems with them?
>>>
>>> It means:
>>> [PATCH 1/4] b43: use correct firmware for newer cores
>>> [PATCH 2/4 v2] b43: N-PHY: implement radio 2056 init steps
>>> [PATCH 3/4] b43: N-PHY: add init tables for 2056 radio
>>> [PATCH 4/4] b43: N-PHY: avoid PHY hangs for rev 3 and 4
>>>
>>> [PATCH 1/2] b43: N-PHY: use correct channel tables for rev4+
>>> [PATCH 2/2 v2] b43: N-PHY: update 2056 radio on channel switch on rev3+
>>> and this one.
>>
>> John,
>>
>> I have been testing these patches with a 14e4:432b device for at least two
>> weeks. With them, the driver still does not handle WPA/WPA2 encryption and falls
>> over with OFDM rates, but it is rock solid with WEP encryption and at 11 Mb/s.
>> Rafał and I have some ideas why the limitations, but the holidays have
>> interfered with debugging.
>>
>> Larry
>
> And with merging...
>
> I hope to get caught-up soon.
I hope there are some rtlwifi/rtl8192ce updates there as well. I'll wait for
some new merges before I bug you about the specific patches.
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-04 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-21 20:29 [PATCH] b43: N-PHY: enable support for PHYs rev 3 and higher Rafał Miłecki
2011-01-04 15:50 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-01-04 16:08 ` Larry Finger
2011-01-04 18:11 ` John W. Linville
2011-01-04 18:19 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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