Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

From: Michael Buesch
Date: Mon Dec 17 2007 - 17:48:34 EST


On Monday 17 December 2007 23:04:37 mvtodevnull@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2007 5:35 AM, <mvtodevnull@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If this is a mac80211 related problem, then other systems connecting
> > to the same ap and using mac80211 would also be affected? Like I said
> > earlier, there are five machines connecting to this ap, and I just
> > realized one of them has a ralink card that uses the rt2x00 driver,
> > which I believe is mac80211. That system doesn't have this problem,
> > which leads me to believe it may not be mac80211 after all, although I
> > wouldn't rule it out.
> >
>
> This also doesn't seem to be related to firmware version. I forced my
> device to use b43legacy, and the results were identical with the
> version 3 firmware.

Ehm, excuse me.
What are you doing exactly? In this thread you told me you have
a device which requires b43:

> I don't know what happened before, but after a reboot, I can't repeat
> the 200 kB/s speed. It's back down to 40 kB/s, just like originally. I
> didn't move the laptop, or the ap, the only thing I can think of that
> might have changed is the noise level. FWIW, link quality is
> consistently the same or better with b43.

How the hell can you now "force it to use b43legacy"??

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Greetings Michael.
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