Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 13:00 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >> John H. wrote: >>> I was wondering if, on fedora 7 now with 2.6.21 kernel, it is possible >>> to use bcm43xx driver with this device and get 54mb/s and wpa support? >>> >>> I have the firmware installed, etc. >>> >>> I just had many problems last time, as it wouldn't get 54mb/s, etc. >> With 2.6.21 or later kernels, the bcm43xx driver works quite well without >> any patching. It still >> doesn't do 54 Mbs, but my 4311 gets an Iperf throughput of over 15 Mbs. FYI, >> Windows using exactly >> the same configuration and hardware gets 19 Mbs, thus we are close. > > Actually, bcm43xx seems to be patched in the stock Fedora kernel to only > support 4301. At least it fails to pick 4318 on my desktop machine. > See "alias" below: > > $ modinfo bcm43xx > filename: > /lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3228.fc7/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx.ko > license: GPL > author: Michael Buesch > author: Stefano Brivio > author: Martin Langer > description: Broadcom BCM43xx wireless driver > srcversion: F29014CCD786A001B1A577A > alias: pci:v000014E4d00004301sv*sd*bc*sc*i* > depends: ieee80211,ieee80211softmac > ... > > The standalone version from ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches compiles > fine though and has a whole bunch of aliases.
That is John Linville's attempt to get people to use bcm43xx-mac80211, rather than softmac. That is a Fedora-only modification. Stock kernels support all bcm43xx versions without any changes. The stand-alone code exactly matches a "standard" kernel. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
