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Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 10:11:30 +0200
From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
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To: "Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
cc: "Vasiliy Tolstov" <v.tolstov@selfip.ru>,
	"Julian Calaby" <julian.calaby@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: very bad work of wl (bcm 43228)
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On 05/06/2013 05:31 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 05/06/2013 05:45 AM, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
>> 2013/5/6 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>:
>>> You are using a closed-source driver. None of us know what is in the
>>> code,
>>> thus there is very little help we can give you other than to give
>>> general
>>> suggestions. If you were using b43 or brcmsmac, the situation would be
>>> different.
>>
>>
>> Yes, but on last message i get response from broadcom and expect to
>> see his answers.
>> May be broadcom has own mailing list for bad things in their drivers?
>
> My impression was that you were given a general answer, but that no
> specific suggestions could be made. I don't think you should expect any
> more help from the open-source community.

The only specific suggestion given by me was to turn off powersave, but 
that was already tried. My knowledge of wl linux-sta driver is limited.

> I am not aware of any mailing list for complaints about wl, but I never
> use it.

Actually, there is: linux-wlan-client-support-list@broadcom.com

It can be found on the web page [1].

Regards,
Arend

[1] http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php