Re: Anyone solved the b43legacy 1 Mb/s issue in Squeeze?

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@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?

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