Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] b43 good news and bad news

2009-02-03 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 20:53 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > So well. > b43 in AP mode does actually work properly. Indeed, I found it functional, even with WPA2. Just not performing well on throughput. > Atheros is the best bet, I'd say. But _first_ check to buy a supported card. Indeed. On

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] b43 good news and bad news

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Buesch
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 20:41:06 Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 20:16 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 05:44:42 Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > > The bad news is that throughput still sucks rocks. > > Sorry if that sounded harsh. It didn't seem as hars

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] b43 good news and bad news

2009-02-03 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 20:16 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 05:44:42 Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > The bad news is that throughput still sucks rocks. Sorry if that sounded harsh. It didn't seem as harsh when I was writing it as it did just now reading it. I meant no ill-

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] b43 good news and bad news

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Buesch
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 05:44:42 Brian J. Murrell wrote: > The bad news is that throughput still sucks rocks. This is unlikely to change ever, except if broadcom releases the sources. Go and buy a device that's actually vendor supported, if you want full throughput. -- Greetings, Michael. _

[OpenWrt-Devel] b43 good news and bad news

2009-02-02 Thread Brian J. Murrell
So, I decided to give b43 in AP mode a go on my ASUS wl500gp with r14139 (kernel 2.6.25.20). The results are both good and bad. First the good news. The problems I was seeing with b43/AP mode on my Linksys WRT54GS are gone. I don't see the CPU saturated with ksoftirqd. Yay. The bad news is tha