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Re: RFT bcm43xx: Really _GOOD_ news

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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!

Greetings,
Rafael
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