Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-27 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 27.10.2008 21:48, Chris Nolan wrote: Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: On 27.10.2008 12:15, Chris Nolan wrote: As an end user I find that slightly confusing to have so many different permutations. I would find it less confusing to do your original way and drop the "hybrid" altogether: "kmod-wl" fo

Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-27 Thread Chris Nolan
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: On 27.10.2008 12:15, Chris Nolan wrote: As an end user I find that slightly confusing to have so many different permutations. I would find it less confusing to do your original way and drop the "hybrid" altogether: "kmod-wl" for the kmod package "broadcom-wl" for th

Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-27 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 10:27 +, Chris Nolan wrote: > >> (FWIW I've got a 4328 chipset on x86_64). > >> > > > > No you don't. :) > > > > lspci lies, someone screwed up the name for device id 4328. The 4321 > and > > 4322 typically sit behind a bridge that has device id 4328, or > something >

Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-27 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 27.10.2008 12:15, Chris Nolan wrote: Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: Please don't use the term "-kmod-common" in the package name; just call it "broadcom-hybrid-wl" and add Provides: broadcom-hybrid-wl-kmod-common = %{version}-%{release} Thinking about it some more: Maybe the best scheme for both

Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-27 Thread Chris Nolan
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: Please don't use the term "-kmod-common" in the package name; just call it "broadcom-hybrid-wl" and add Provides: broadcom-hybrid-wl-kmod-common = %{version}-%{release} Thinking about it some more: Maybe the best scheme for both packages might be: "kmod-wl" for th

Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-27 Thread Chris Nolan
Jarod Wilson wrote: Used what I believe were the same bits I used on the AppleTV, and the performance was even worse than w/hybrid_wl, and ultimately, the connection completely died. Need to try with another (newer) driver (the one Dell actually published for the card). [...] I'd lean that w

Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-27 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 27.10.2008 04:03, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 00:22 +, Chris Nolan wrote: Jarod, Thorsten et al, couple of questions for you guys... [...] Now I have a couple of questions: 1) What should the package be called? I'm not thrilled with "hybrid_wl-kmod" because I don't think

Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-26 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 00:22 +, Chris Nolan wrote: > Jarod, Thorsten et al, couple of questions for you guys... > > I've got so far as including the required license file in a (required) > -common package, and made a few fixes to make rpmlint happy. I also > included another patch to fix the

Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-26 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 22:21 +, Chris Nolan wrote: > Jarod Wilson wrote: > > > > Heh, sorry 'bout that... Although to be honest, I dunno that I'd suggest > > a kmod as a first package for *anyone*, since they consist of so much > > black magic... :) > > > > However, I'd be perfectly happy if you

Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-26 Thread Chris Nolan
Jarod, Thorsten et al, couple of questions for you guys... I've got so far as including the required license file in a (required) -common package, and made a few fixes to make rpmlint happy. I also included another patch to fix the vlanmode issue. Now I have a couple of questions: 1) What sh

Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-26 Thread Chris Nolan
Jarod Wilson wrote: Heh, sorry 'bout that... Although to be honest, I dunno that I'd suggest a kmod as a first package for *anyone*, since they consist of so much black magic... :) However, I'd be perfectly happy if you wanted to take this on as its primary maintainer, with me as a co-maintaine

Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-26 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 20:09 +0100, Andreas Thienemann wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > > Okay, so back to the Linux side and the hybrid_wl driver... I get no > > better than ~350KB/s. I presume the driver isn't handling the > > single-antenna very well or something [...] > >

Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-26 Thread Andreas Thienemann
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Jarod Wilson wrote: > Okay, so back to the Linux side and the hybrid_wl driver... I get no > better than ~350KB/s. I presume the driver isn't handling the > single-antenna very well or something [...] This might be an antenna diversity issue, but I do not think this is likel

Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-26 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 10:12 +, Chris Nolan wrote: > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > On 26.10.2008 05:02, Jarod Wilson wrote: > >> Anyone working on a kmod package for the semi-open-source Broadcom > >> driver? > > > > See the following mails that are just a few days old ;-) > > > > http://lists.rp

Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-26 Thread Chris Nolan
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: On 26.10.2008 05:02, Jarod Wilson wrote: Anyone working on a kmod package for the semi-open-source Broadcom driver? See the following mails that are just a few days old ;-) http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2008-October/001797.html http://lis

Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-26 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 26.10.2008 05:02, Jarod Wilson wrote: Anyone working on a kmod package for the semi-open-source Broadcom driver? See the following mails that are just a few days old ;-) http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2008-October/001797.html http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/r

Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

2008-10-25 Thread Jarod Wilson
Anyone working on a kmod package for the semi-open-source Broadcom driver? http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php I recently acquired some hardware that theoretically will work with it (though rumor has it ndiswrapper may still work better/allow faster speeds). I hacked something t