On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 10:56 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > You may use either one. The driver supported by mainstream kernels is > bcm43xx, which uses SoftMAC as > its MAC layer. The driver named b43, which uses mac80211 as its MAC layer, > will be replacing bcm43xx > in mainstream in the coming months. If that F7 kernel offers b43 as an > option, use it. The > performance of the two drivers is essentially the same; however, the > stability and flexibility of > mac80211 is a great improvement over SoftMAC.
The F7 kernel should currently use bcm43xx-mac80211 by default. If you fetch http://david.woodhou.se/bcm43xx-override and put it in /etc/modprobe.d then you'll use the softmac bcm43xx driver instead. That might be worth a try if you have problems with the mac80211 version. Note that each of those require firmware extracted from different versions of the 'official' drivers. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
