Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-13 Thread Stephen Sinclair
> I think most, if not all, the 4311 and 4312's are helped. I will be > submitting a set of > patches this afternoon that help most cards. I just wanted to express my thanks for all your work on this driver, and everyone else who's contributed to it. Since this patch has fixed the speed issues,

Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-13 Thread Larry Finger
John W. Linville wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 05:41:06PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: >> Miles Lane wrote: >>> I am testing this patch applied to the wireless-net git tree. >>> The card is a Linksys WPC54G. The card is still getting very >>> weak signal strength and the connection seems unrespon

Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-12 Thread Jochen Puchalla
[Freitag, 9. Februar 2007 18:00] schrieb Larry Finger (wrote): > Jochen Puchalla wrote: > > Hi Larry, > > > > I tried both versions with the combined patch on 2.6.20-rc7, still only > > 100kB/s. Could this be related to the fact that I have a b-type router > > and not a g-type? > > It shouldn't. I

Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-10 Thread Stephen Sinclair
> > I have one more test to try... I am strangely never able to associate > > with the wifi router in my girlfriend's apartment, however it is a > > crappy old D-Link B-series router. I'll try it next time I get a > > chance. (I've long suspected the reason is that she lives in an > > apartment b

Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-10 Thread Larry Finger
Miles Lane wrote: > I am testing this patch applied to the wireless-net git tree. > The card is a Linksys WPC54G. The card is still getting very > weak signal strength and the connection seems unresponsive > most of the time. As the subject says, the patch was for 4311 and 4312 cards. The 4318's

Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-09 Thread Larry Finger
Jochen Puchalla wrote: > > Hi Larry, > > I tried both versions with the combined patch on 2.6.20-rc7, still only > 100kB/s. Could this be related to the fact that I have a b-type router > and not a g-type? It shouldn't. I just ran tests here with different settings on my AP. With a B-only setti

Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-09 Thread Jochen Puchalla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry Finger wrote: > Jochen Puchalla wrote: >> this sounds wonderful! However, I applied this patch and >> radio_enable_2.6.20 to my 2.6.20-rc7 on an HP nx6325 (I know you have >> one as well), but still I only get 100kB/s at 1M 2M 5.5M and 11M. Do I

Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-08 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:11, Stephen Sinclair wrote: > Hello, > > Apologies for being so slow about applying and testing this patch. > Now that I had some time, I tried to be quite methodical about it. I > hadn't used iperf before, so I'm happy to have heard about this nice > tool. > > He

Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-08 Thread Stephen Sinclair
Hello, Apologies for being so slow about applying and testing this patch. Now that I had some time, I tried to be quite methodical about it. I hadn't used iperf before, so I'm happy to have heard about this nice tool. Here are my results, 4311, HD dv2020 laptop: WITHOUT the patch in this thread

Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:17, Larry Finger wrote: > Jochen Puchalla wrote: > > this sounds wonderful! However, I applied this patch and > > radio_enable_2.6.20 to my 2.6.20-rc7 on an HP nx6325 (I know you have > > one as well), but still I only get 100kB/s at 1M 2M 5.5M and 11M. Do I > > need

Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-07 Thread Larry Finger
Jochen Puchalla wrote: > this sounds wonderful! However, I applied this patch and > radio_enable_2.6.20 to my 2.6.20-rc7 on an HP nx6325 (I know you have > one as well), but still I only get 100kB/s at 1M 2M 5.5M and 11M. Do I > need the combined-patch for 2.6.20? I only have 1GB RAM and don't do >

Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-07 Thread Larry Finger
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, 7 February 2007 07:34, Pavel Roskin wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 00:02 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: >>> The patch below will only affect cards with PHY revision 8, which I think >>> are only BCM4311 and >>> BCM4312. At least those are the only ones in the

Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 7 February 2007 07:34, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 00:02 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > > The patch below will only affect cards with PHY revision 8, which I think > > are only BCM4311 and > > BCM4312. At least those are the only ones in the database. > > BCM4312, old

Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-06 Thread Jochen Puchalla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry Finger wrote: > The patch I sent out earlier was wrong; however, it provided a clue as to > what was wrong in the > specs and in the code. As it turned out, the mistake I made earlier only > affected 4 places in the > code and it was easy to te

Re: RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 00:02 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > The patch below will only affect cards with PHY revision 8, which I think are > only BCM4311 and > BCM4312. At least those are the only ones in the database. BCM4312, old patch: 1.7M/s no patch: 26k/s no patch, rate 1: 100k/s new patch: 1.7

RFT: The real fix for BCM4311 and BCM4312

2007-02-06 Thread Larry Finger
The patch I sent out earlier was wrong; however, it provided a clue as to what was wrong in the specs and in the code. As it turned out, the mistake I made earlier only affected 4 places in the code and it was easy to test them in turn. According to Murphy's law, the wrong one was the last one t