b43 and BCM4322 reports full signal strength for all AP
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Hey everyone,
I'm running B43 from compat-wireless-3.0_rc4-r4 with the BCM4322 in my macbook pro 5,2. It seems to work, except that every AP shows full signal strength / quality. Is this a known issue or should I be doing something to debug this? Beyond that, the connection is sometimes unstable and slower than broadcom's WL.
However, monitor mode and injection work great on B43. Scanning/init also seems to be much faster using B43. With WL, it takes significantly longer to connect to my AP after boot or waking from suspend.
Can someone also verify that I'm using the correct firmware?
lspci: 04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
04:00.0 0280: 14e4:432b (rev 01)
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PNL, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 508.1084 (2009-01-14 01:32:01)
Thanks,
Tom
2011/7/5 Thomas Zwaagstra <[email protected]>:
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I'm running B43 from compat-wireless-3.0_rc4-r4 with the BCM4322 in my macbook pro 5,2. ?It seems to work, except that every AP shows full signal strength / quality. Is this a known issue or should I be doing something to debug this? Beyond that, the connection is sometimes unstable and slower than broadcom's WL.
We don't have calibration code yet, so connection can be less stable/slower. Unfortunately I won't start working on it for some time as there are different issues I want to address first.
As for info about signal, it's possible we incorrectly parse headers coming from firmware. I've to check this issue with my hardware, then I'll be able to say sth more.
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However, monitor mode and injection work great on B43. ?Scanning/init also seems to be much faster using B43. ?With WL, it takes significantly longer to connect to my AP after boot or waking from suspend.
Can someone also verify that I'm using the correct firmware?
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lspci: 04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
04:00.0 0280: 14e4:432b (rev 01)
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PNL, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 508.1084 (2009-01-14 01:32:01)
Your firmware looks alright.
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