bcm43xx Driver only works @ 11Mb/s

I've got the same problem with bcm4606 driver. It works only with 11mb/s.

There's currently no real support for setting the transmission power, so as you increase the speed, reliability decreases. It's unlikely that this will be improved in time for dapper - indeed, we'll be setting the default speed to 11MBit.

so in your opinion is better to stickit out at 11Mb/s or switch back to ndiswrapper,
which is faster?

How can I lend assistance to help "speed up" the process?

/etc/network/interfaces stanza:

auto wireless
iface wireless inet static
        address 192.168.2.2
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.2.1
        dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1
        wireless-essid TV
        wireless-rate 54M
        wireless-channel 10
        up iwlist scan

stanza for access point (atheros card):

auto wireless
iface wireless inet static
        address 192.168.2.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        wireless-essid TV
        wireless-mode Master
        wireless-rate 54M
        wireless-channel 10
        pre-up iwpriv wireless mode 3

sorry atheros isn't bcm4306 or bcm4318 and isn't actually related to bcm43xx driver at all, so thanks for the input but your on a different chipset, with your own driver

trubblelmaker:
Your best bet is to try and work with the upstream developers (http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ ) to debug the drivers they are making and push newly stablised drivers into the mainstream kernel where they will be picked up by the distros.

trubblelmaker,

The ibook's wireless chipset is indeed a bcm4306; the access point is atheros.

So it's worth a shot to try that configuration.

I'll give the static config a shot, won't work for me at school but I let you know how it goes at home.

trubblelmaker:

Is this any better in a 2.6.15-23 kernel?

Setting to needsinfo pending reply from trubblelmaker.

impoved it now works upto 36Mb/s although it seems to be a little slow, I will use it for a little while and make sure it continues to run properly, still can't get it to work @ 48Mb/s or 54Mb/s.

ok so my dmesg now get filled with variations of these error/info messages:

[4299514.954000] ieee80211: eth1: IEEE80211_ASSOC_REQ received
[4299616.027000] SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:0e:35:8b:c8:2e but no queue item exists.
[4299616.029000] SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:0f:34:ef:e6:70 but no queue item exists.
[4299616.030000] ieee80211: eth1: IEEE80211_ASSOC_REQ received
[4299675.755000] SoftMAC: Received deauthentication packet from 00:0f:34:c1:89:00, but that network is unknown.

on the upside it doesn't fail and it often goes faster, so we're getting real close but still error messages, I"m happy to test anything else you have upyour sleave and will continue to monitor and test it for you.

This Ubuntu version is not supported any more. Should we close this bug?

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