On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 10:10 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > that's right -- a MiniPCI Broadcom 802.11b/g BCM4318.
>
> Some (most?) have the chip soldered right onto the mainboard. ASUS
> are nice in that they provide it via MiniPCI. :-)
that's one of the things i found most appealing about that particular
router.
> > at the moment, i'm running wireless on a gateway laptop with a
> > broadcom chip, and it works fine with the newer b43 driver, so i
> > just wanted to know if this success had translated over into
> > openwrt.
>
> The situation, as I understand it is not so much of portability
> between projects as much as it's the driver itself. When you are
> using it on your laptop, you are a "client" (of an AP). This
> (client) mode in the b43 driver is progressing further ahead of the
> "being an AP" mode. So it's more a situation of certain features or
> "use cases" of the driver making progress faster than others.
i realize that, i just didn't know if progress was being made equally
quickly on all fronts. apparently not. :-(
in any event, now that i have the time to hack on my ASUS again, i'll
have a few more questions a bit later today for those who still have
the patience to deal with a relative newbie.
rday
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