Re: Need help w/ bcm43xx-mac80211 issues? (ndiswrapper considered harmful)

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 09:17 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
First, the issue that lots of people are having...if you are getting
the "YOUR FIRMWARE IS TOO OLD" issue, I recommend that you follow
this procedure:

# you need to be root
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o

That should fix things for most people. However, some people still
need/want to use the older driver even on devices that are (or should
be) supported by the newer driver. If you are in this situation,
I recommend this procedure:

# save the file attached to this email as "bcm43xx-old-config"
# you need to be root
./bcm43xx-old-config

The internals of that file look a little hairy, so I don't want people
having to type the commands themselves... :-) Anyway, the second
procedure is ONLY for those who have completed the first procedure and
find the bcm43xx-mac80211 driver to be unacceptable. This includes
_some_ bcm4318 users and apparently a _few_ bcm4306 users. This should
keep most of you from having to use an unsupportable alternative
like ndiswrapper.

Hth!

John

Thanks for the help with this posting. And to the others who followed
up with the pointers to SELINUX.

I was able to get my new shiny Lenovo Lappy working and I was _almost_
happy until I noted the tranfer speeds. I'm only getting 20 Kbytes/sec
2 feet from my AP on my wireless network while my Atheros based machines
get 3 Mbytes/sec 50ft from my AP.

Any ideas?

Sean

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