just put alias wlan0 b43 and forget about wpa_supplicant.conf with network manager works fine On Nov 15, 2007 9:33 PM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 08:15:38PM +0100, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > > > With b43 configured following > > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 > > I still only get a very slow and unstable connection oscillating between > > 1 and 5.5 Mb/s, so I switched to b43legacy, adding > > alias wlan0 b43legacy > > to /etc/modprobe.conf and blacklisting b43, having loaded the version 3 > > firmware according to the above mentioned driver site. > > This won't work. The b43 and b43legacy drivers are actually SSB > drivers, with the PCI ID of your device used to load a PCI<->SSB bridge > driver. That code then loads the appropriate SSB driver based on SSB > wireless core revision. In short, b43legacy just doesn't recognize > your device. At present there is no runtime trick equivalent to what > we used to load bcm43xx in F7. > > Since the device is working at low speeds for you, you might experiment > with limiting the maximum rate so as to avoid rate oscillations: > > iwconfig wlan0 rate 5.5M auto > > You could then experiment to see if you can bump the rate higher. > > I'll look at ways to load b43legacy as an alternative driver (without > having to recompile the kernel). But for now, the above is all I > have to offer. > > John > -- > John W. Linville > linville@xxxxxxxxxx > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- [Jorge J. Boscán Etura] quando omni flunkus moritatus -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
