Re: Which module

2007-08-27 Thread David Woodhouse 
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.

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Re: Which module

2007-08-27 Thread Larry Finger 
John Pierce wrote:
> Ok, I have been trying to make heads or tails of it, which driver do I
> need to use for the broadcom 4311 dell wlan 1390.
> 
> Is it b43 or bcm43xx?  I have just upgraded a fedora 7 installation to
> 2.6.22.4-65 and want to give the native driver a try again.

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.

For completeness, there is yet another driver for the BCM43xx chips that is 
named b43legacy. It is 
used for any 802.11b cards/chips and for one older variant of the BCM4306 
802.11g chip. If you 
happen to see a reference to bcm43xx-mac80211, that is the old name for b43.

Larry
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Which module

2007-08-27 Thread John Pierce 
Ok, I have been trying to make heads or tails of it, which driver do I
need to use for the broadcom 4311 dell wlan 1390.

Is it b43 or bcm43xx?  I have just upgraded a fedora 7 installation to
2.6.22.4-65 and want to give the native driver a try again.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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