On Monday 18 February 2008 16:35:11 John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:23:35AM +0100, Ronald wrote: > > hey, > > > > I'm currently using the b43 driver for my BCM4311 chipset. The driver works > > extremely well. It is the only option under Linux that supports WPA-AES > > with wpa_supplicant :) (and it's more stable than wpa_supplicant). However, > > I'm seeing some unexpected behaviour with the card and another chipset. > > When I enable my soundcard (setting volume from 0 to > 0) the wireless > > signal seems to drop completely (really funny to see my downloadspeeds go > > up and down :) ). My question is, is this normal? > > > > However, I'm not sure if this is related to the b43 driver so don't flame > > me ;) > > Very strange...my only guess would be EMI generated from your audio > chipset and/or the speakers in your laptop. > > Is it really just the volume setting? I.E. if you "play" the audio > but with the volume turned down does everything work fine? Does the > performance continue to degrade as you increase the volume? > > Wierd...I'm not sure what we can do about this... Heh, yeah. I guess you should buy an FCC rules compliant soundcard instead. ;) This sounds like EMI. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
