Return-path: Received: from pikachu.3ti.be ([188.40.111.73]:40892 "EHLO pikachu.3ti.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759777Ab3BHBGw (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2013 20:06:52 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pikachu.3ti.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D8621263 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 02:06:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from pikachu.3ti.be ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pikachu.3ti.be [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 1faKcuR19n1H for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 02:06:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pikachu.3ti.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EEF921263 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 02:06:50 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 02:06:50 +0100 (CET) From: Dag Wieers To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BCM4321 (b43) on AppleTV (1st gen) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: (sfid-20130208_020657_458315_636A1575) References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Dag Wieers wrote: > For the OpenELEC project I am looking into getting better performance out of > the b43 driver on the AppleTV (1st gen) device . The website reports the > driver can do 802.11n (albeit on 2.4Ghz only), however using kernel 3.7.5 > (and earlier) I cannot get more than 3 MB/sec out of it (usually much less). I wanted to add the kernel boot messages: ---- root ~ # dmesg | grep b43 [ 2.902696] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4321 WLAN found (core revision 12) [ 2.976740] b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 5, Type 4 (N), Revision 2 [ 2.976772] b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2055, Revision 4 [ 3.038609] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx [ 3.040268] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx [ 3.040433] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio [ 4.736728] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 508.1084 (2009-01-14 01:32:01) [ 4.807784] b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized [ 4.808074] b43-phy0 debug: 64-bit DMA initialized [ 4.808142] b43-phy0 debug: QoS enabled [ 4.833456] b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started [ 4.833526] b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2 [ 7.837659] b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 0, mac: 74:44:01:8d:90:5e [ 7.838009] b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 1, mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ---- Kind regards, -- -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, info@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]