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2009/8/27 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Gábor,
>
> Congratulations on your progress. With today's patches my BCM4312
> 802.11b/g card with PCI ID 14e4:4315 works - I'm using it at the
> moment. I'm using WPA2 encryption and have connected to APs on
> channels 1 and 11. My logs are clean.

That's good to hear!

>
> As you noted, performance is a little weak, but I get transmits of
> 9-11 Mb/s and receive rates up to 18 Mb/s - eminently usable.

What is your actual RX throughput? For me, it's usable up to 24Mb/s,
but the actual throughput is limited to 1.2Mb/s.

>
> I certainly hope that you get the patches approved so that these
> changes will be in the 2.6.32 kernel.

The patches are already in the tree, actually.

>
> Once again, congratulations to you, Michael, and the others members of
> the reverse engineering team. Seeing the device comes to life makes
> all those hours of staring at MIPS binary code seem very worthwhile.
>
> For those of you with N PHYs, the RE of those devices will be my next
> step.

My next step will be calibration. :-)

(However, calibration specs are still not complete - there are 2 wlc_*
calls in PR41573. But that only matters for rev.0, and apparently all
4312s are rev.1.)

>
> Larry
>



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