Dell X300 + Dell Wireless a/b/g 1400 mini-pci Broadcom 4324 I believe Gutsi RC, all updates, 2 days before launch :)
The speed is still ABYSMAL - and indeed it can be made somehow better by forcing the speed rate to 5.5M, Bit Rate=5.5 Mb/s Tx-Power=14 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off but IT WORKS VERY WELL WITH NDISWRAPPER (after blacklisting bcm43xx), the difference seems to be: Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B ALSO PLEASE NOTE THAT BCM43XX MIGHT GENERATE PROBLEMS ON SUSPEND/RESTORE!!! (basically I could never restore after suspend-to-RAM with bcm43xx, but with ndiswrapper it seems to work every time). That also kind of reminds me of a very similar problem that the Windows BROADCOM original driver can have - there are 2 advanced settings for that driver that are power-related - "Power Save Mode" - which is best set to "Fast", and "Minimum Power Consumption" - which on this specific Dell 1400 = BCM4324 should be set to "Disabled" - when enabled the same incredibly small speed can be seen in Windows !!! That kind of suggests that a possible explanation might be that the Linux bcm43xx driver is somehow setting the corresponding internal status of the device to something similar to "Minimum Power Consumption" - which for this specific model (4324) does not seem to always work as expected !!! -- Broadcom bcm43xx Wireless driver regression in gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124159 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
