That's possible. It might be a driver issue instead of a firmware issue. How can I tell for sure?
Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 17:24 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > Package: firmware-realtek > Version: 0.35 > Severity: important [...] > In addition, signal strength is incredibly weak, as compared with the > Windows 7 driver running on the same hardware. This is consistant and > at least half the signal strength observed in Windows. [...] What makes you think the Windows driver is using different firmware? Normally a device will run the same firmware regardless of the driver being used. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.