On Saturday 06 September 2008 20:52:53 Larry Finger wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Saturday 06 September 2008 20:34:02 Larry Finger wrote: > >> A coding error present since b43legacy was incorporated into the > >> kernel has prevented the driver from using the rate-setting mechanism > >> of mac80211. The driver has been forced to remain at a 1 Mb/s rate. > > > > Does version3 firmware have a different bitlayout for the status? > > It seems so. I found this because I was not getting any acks back to > net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c. I then reviewed the V3 specs, found > that bit 0, not bit 1, contained the ack. Test prints confirmed that > result. With this patch, both my BCM4306/2 and BCM4303 reach the > maximum rate. With the current code, 54 Mb/s is not as fast as 36 > Mb/s, but at least the algorithm is working. Yeah ok. I just asked, because it seems the _whole_ flags bitfield is rightshifted by one (so the other flags are wrong, too. See the intermediate flag) -- 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
