On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2011 20:28:58 -0700, Mark wrote: > > > This is a long-standing issue with b43legacy wireless and transmission > > rates being slow, across various Linux distros and many years. Since I > > upgraded to Squeeze I was hopeful the rate issue would be fixed but alas > > it is not. I can run "iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M" to get wicd and iwconfig > > to say it's 54 Mb/s but it's actually connected at 1 Mb/s in reality. > > Any chance someone on this list has figured out a solution that my hours > > of Googling did not produce? ndiswrapper didn't solve the problem based > > on other peoples' experiences, FWIW. > > There is a very good and complete page on this module that explains the > difference between the two drivers (b43/b43legacy) and when to use each > of them: > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 > > If you wireless card supports it, you can try to load b43 which seems to > support a wider range of devices. > Unfortunately my card needs b43legacy since it is a BCM 4306 rev 02 model...any other ideas?
