A small error in b43

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 06:27:17 EDT 2011


W dniu 17 kwietnia 2011 10:35 użytkownik Christian Kujau
<lists at nerdbynature.de> napisał:
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 at 09:06, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 , we report BCM4322 as
>> supported in 2.6.39+. With this newer kernel you should get 54M TX.
>
> FWIW, I booted 2.6.39-0.rc3.git2.0.fc16.x86_64 and now it's at 1.2MBps,
> which is not great but a huge impovement. Oh, and for the record: the
> PCI-ID for this BCM4322 chip is 14e4:432b.

How did you test this speed? Was this iperf or something else? 1.2MBps
is 9.6 Mbps. I was able to achieve 15.2 Mbps (1.9 MBps) with the same
card.

What were the conditions? Were you far away from AP?

You can see my comparison for PHY rev4, which means for example
14e4:432b: http://zajec.net/blog/view/2011-b43-n-phy-rev3plus-performance

-- 
Rafał



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