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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:28:05 +1300 From: Paul Collins <paul@...ny.ondioline.org> To: Robert Martin <robertm83@...il.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de Subject: Re: NETDEV-BCM43XX BUG - Failure to associate AP with latest devscape git pull.. (Please use reply-to-all to keep Cc:s intact, and place new material below quoted material.) Robert Martin <robertm83@...il.com> writes: > Paul Collins wrote: >> Robert Martin <robertm83@...il.com> writes: >> >>> Alas, that seems to have been the problem, I was getting different >>> frequencies. Once I manually set the frequency, dhclient worked >>> perfectly. The only problem now is that I seem to be limited to very >>> slow speeds (on the order of 5-20K/s, or ~120 kilobits/s). >> >> I guess the speed problem is due to the general state of BCM4318 >> support, as mentioned by the developers. >> >> I'm glad the frequency thing isn't some weird glitch that only I am >> experiencing though. >> > I'm pretty sure that I'm using a 4311 chip... lspci -n gives... > > 03:00.0 0280: 14e4:4311 (rev 01) > > ...I might have been mistaken about it being a PCI-E chip in that > case. One additional question, it seems the link quality is very low; > "iwconfig wlan0" tells me it's 3/100 after associating with my AP. > Could that be the power issue that Johannes Berg was speaking of? I'm > curious as to what speeds you're running at, and what your link > quality is. My card (a 4306) seems to be running at 11Mbps. No idea how to change it: iwconfig doesn't report the current rate (I had to go digging in sysfs) and trying to change it with iwconfig fails with "Operation not supported". Here's the signal info: Link Quality=228/100 Signal level=-32 dBm Noise level=-70 dBm The machine is about 3 metres from the AP. -- Paul Collins Wellington, New Zealand Dag vijandelijk luchtschip de huismeester is dood - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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