Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-18 Thread Johan Ehnberg
> The loss of connection and the low data rate may both be due to > interference. The bcm43xx driver would be more susceptible than would > ndiswrapper (see below). Have you tried changing channels? The obvious > choices would be 1, 6, or 11 depending on other AP's in your vicinity. > In my cas

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-18 Thread Larry Finger
Johan Ehnberg wrote: > > The sluggishness disappeared with rate 11M. It was at 24M like you > assumed. But the connection is still lost after a few minutes. It then > takes a minute before it automatically (most of the time) reconnects. > > As I see it, there are two shortcomings of the driver

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-18 Thread Johan Ehnberg
> I also get the unexplained printk suppressed messages that I don't > understand. They may be this (debugging enabled): bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 > I also do not understand the sluggish performance from your BCM4312. I > though it had the same radio

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-18 Thread Larry Finger
Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Hi, > > I have more to report today. I was able to connect to the network now, > but the connection is sluggish at least with WPA, and eventually > disconnects. I am getting a lot of the following messages: > > [ 477.704000] printk: 2 messages suppressed. > [ 484.516000

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-18 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Larry Finger wrote: > Johan Ehnberg wrote: >> Larry Finger wrote: >>> Andrew J. Barr wrote: Larry Finger wrote: > I just loaded a new version of the standalone system. Please get it > and retry your build. I think I fixed the problem. It works as long as you uncomment _both_

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-17 Thread Larry Finger
Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Larry Finger wrote: >> Andrew J. Barr wrote: >>> Larry Finger wrote: I just loaded a new version of the standalone system. Please get it and retry your build. I think I fixed the problem. >>> >>> It works as long as you uncomment _both_ DEBUG and PIO_MODE in >>> b

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-17 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Larry Finger wrote: > Andrew J. Barr wrote: >> Larry Finger wrote: >>> I just loaded a new version of the standalone system. Please get it >>> and retry your build. I think I fixed the problem. >> >> It works as long as you uncomment _both_ DEBUG and PIO_MODE in >> bcm43xx-softmac-sa/bcm43xx/Make

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-17 Thread Larry Finger
Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Larry Finger wrote: >> I just loaded a new version of the standalone system. Please get it >> and retry your build. I think I fixed the problem. > > It works as long as you uncomment _both_ DEBUG and PIO_MODE in > bcm43xx-softmac-sa/bcm43xx/Makefile. Thanks for the feedb

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-17 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Larry Finger wrote: > Johan Ehnberg wrote: >> >> Pavel Roskin wrote: >>> On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 20:57 +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: >>> If I get the chance to roll a custom kernel, I will test it and get back to you. My network quota is rather restricted where I am currently, so i

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-17 Thread Larry Finger
Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Larry Finger wrote: >> For any version of the bcm43xx devices, maximum performance is >> obtained only by downloading and installing the appropriate patch from >> ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches for any kernel through 2.6.21-rc7. >> It is expected that 2.6.22-rc1 (whe

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-17 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Larry Finger wrote: > I just loaded a new version of the standalone system. Please get it and retry > your build. I think I > fixed the problem. It works as long as you uncomment _both_ DEBUG and PIO_MODE in bcm43xx-softmac-sa/bcm43xx/Makefile. Thanks! Andrew _

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-17 Thread Larry Finger
Johan Ehnberg wrote: > > And the module still fails to load as above. Want me to test more? I just loaded a new version of the standalone system. Please get it and retry your build. I think I fixed the problem. Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-17 Thread Larry Finger
Johan Ehnberg wrote: > > Pavel Roskin wrote: >> On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 20:57 +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: >> >>> If I get the chance to roll a custom kernel, I will test it and get >>> back >>> to you. My network quota is rather restricted where I am currently, >>> so >>> it might take a while to

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-17 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Larry Finger wrote: > For any version of the bcm43xx devices, maximum performance is obtained only > by downloading and > installing the appropriate patch from ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches for > any kernel through > 2.6.21-rc7. It is expected that 2.6.22-rc1 (when it is released) will ha

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-17 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 20:57 +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > >> If I get the chance to roll a custom kernel, I will test it and get >> back >> to you. My network quota is rather restricted where I am currently, >> so >> it might take a while to get all the packages. >> >> Ot

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-16 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 20:57 +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > If I get the chance to roll a custom kernel, I will test it and get > back > to you. My network quota is rather restricted where I am currently, > so > it might take a while to get all the packages. > > Otherwise I will just give it anot

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-16 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Larry Finger wrote: > Johan Ehnberg wrote: >> Pavel Roskin wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:49 +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: >>> referring to the page on http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=devices, here is my integrated card on a HP Compaq nx6325. So far, I have had no l

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-16 Thread Larry Finger
Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Pavel Roskin wrote: >> Hello! >> >> On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:49 +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: >> >>> referring to the page on http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=devices, here is >>> my integrated card on a HP Compaq nx6325. So far, I have had no luck >>> with the bcm43xx driver, b

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-16 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Pavel Roskin wrote: > Hello! > > On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:49 +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > >> referring to the page on http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=devices, here is >> my integrated card on a HP Compaq nx6325. So far, I have had no luck >> with the bcm43xx driver, but ndiswrapper works. >> >>

Re: Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-16 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:49 +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > referring to the page on http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=devices, here is > my integrated card on a HP Compaq nx6325. So far, I have had no luck > with the bcm43xx driver, but ndiswrapper works. > > 30:00.0 0280: 14e4:4312 (rev 01)

Addition to list of chipsets

2007-04-16 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Dear mailinglist, referring to the page on http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=devices, here is my integrated card on a HP Compaq nx6325. So far, I have had no luck with the bcm43xx driver, but ndiswrapper works. 30:00.0 0280: 14e4:4312 (rev 01) Subsystem: 103c:1361 Flags: bus maste