On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 16:12 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > Hi b43 users, > > Please be so kind to run lots of regression tests on the following > patch. This patch is supposed to make the LO calibration a _lot_ more > lightweight and avoid a long MAC-disable period every 120 seconds. > > We need a lot of regression testing with this patch on lots of different > devices to make sure we don't introduce regressions. > > I tested this on a 4306 and a 4318 card. So far it seems to work great > on these cards. Tested on this: b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 2, Type 2, Revision 2 b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid' Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMLR, Firmware-ID: FW13 ] It's actually Fedora development kernel 2.6.25-0.195.rc8.git1.fc9.i686 with patched compat-wireless installed. It's working better than I could possibly expect. The range is on the par with another laptop with ipw3945 running Linux or Windows XP. It's working through 4 walls and 30 meters on top of that. I understand that there are many random factors involved, but my impression is very positive. Basically, it's good enough to go outside with the laptop without having an AP installed near a window. I haven't seen any significant interruptions in the connection. Unfortunately, I hit that nasty circular lock dependency bug (already discussed in another thread) when I killed wpa_supplicant to try another AP. The CPU utilization went to 100%, but the driver kept working. Another unrelated bug (sorry, testing often finds unrelated bugs) is that scanning with specific ESSID was returning non-matching APs. I mean "iwlist wlan0 scan my_essid", which would still report many different ESSIDs. It's inconvenient when the driver can sense 22 APs at once :) I'll try to get 4318 tested over the weekend. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- 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
