Re: Broadcom hybrid_wl driver

On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 10:12 +0000, Chris Nolan wrote: D'oh. I saw those mails, but must admit to not reading particularly close, thus I missed the part about the broadcom driver... :\ Heh, sorry 'bout that... Although to be honest, I dunno that I'd suggest a kmod as a first package for *anyone*, since they consist of so much black magic... :) However, I'd be perfectly happy if you wanted to take this on as its primary maintainer, with me as a co-maintainer. Wasn't aware there was such a patch, by all means, feel free to wedge it into the srpm. Nb: performance with this driver is *miserable* with my particular setup, for reasons I don't yet know... I bought a Dell Studio Hybrid refurb w/a discount special applied atop it, and in it was this BCM4321 card... The Dell is set up in a wired location, so I yanked the card out, and transplanted it into my Mac Mini (which the Dell replaced as my primary mythtv frontend, and is now going upstairs as a secondary frontend, but needs n wifi to stream hdtv to it). Now, note that the Mini only has a single antenna wire in it... The card that was in there (some Ath5k chip) had two antenna posts, but was using only the one, so I figured I'd give it a go w/the BCM4321, which also has two posts. Mac OS X happily transfers data at roughly 4.3MB/s with the BCM4321 using a single antenna, which is more than enough for HDTV (~2.4MB/s). Okay, so back to the Linux side and the hybrid_wl driver... I get no better than ~350KB/s. I presume the driver isn't handling the single-antenna very well or something, but a buddy of mine who also got a Dell w/the same card said hybrid_wl performed pretty badly for him too (the Dell has two antenna internally), but was having stability issues with ndiswrapper. I've used ndiswrapper w/the BCM432<something> chip in my AppleTV with excellent results though, so I'm off to try that next... --jarod