bcm4322 success!

[Rafał Miłecki]

W dniu 20 lutego 2011 13:40 użytkownik Christoph Thielecke
<christoph.thielecke at gmx.de> napisał:
> Hello,
>
>> > I found your blog entry with the christmas gift:
>> > http://zajec.net/blog/view/2010-b43-and-nphy-rev-3-plus
>> > (Patch: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=129296339527734&w=2)
>>
>> Your problems come from fact that you applied only final patch
>> enabling rev3+ support. That way you missed many important earlier
>> patches (for example the one enabling correct firmware loading).
>>
>> Please use sth like wireless-testing git tree to get all needed
>> patches. Using. compat-wireless may do the trick as well, however I
>> didn't try it.
> I can report success! I got it working at 2.6.38-rc5 by specifying options for
> b43 module.
> The specified options are:
> nohwcrypt=1 hwtkip=0 qos=0 pio=1 bad_frames_preempt=1
>
> I'm using it currently ~30 minutes and its working fine.

Thanks for your report! Do you need that all options at all? I think
hwtkip=0 is default one. Parameter qos should not matter. AFAIK pio is
needed for some BCM4321s only. I didn't check what bad_frames_preempt
does.


> wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"xxxxxxxxx"
>          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.432 GHz  Access Point: 00:14:BF:xx:xx:x
>          Bit Rate=11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm
>          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>          Encryption key:off
>          Power Management:off
>          Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=0 dBm
>          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>          Tx excessive retries:4045  Invalid misc:1776   Missed beacon:0
>
> Its only 11Mbit (sure its a 54Mbit AP) but speed is constant ~ 500k/s.
>
> Btw: the driver from broadcom (wl) is NOT working but 4e3 does :-D

Hm, that's interesting. wl should work too.

As for speed, it's known issue. I still hope to get patches ready for
2.6.39 merge window.

-- 
Rafał