From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNoZx-0006ES-BK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:13:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32F54E06BC; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 12:13:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dcnode-02.unlimitedmail.net (139.Red-80-26-111.staticIP.rima-tde.net [80.26.111.139]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFDE2E06BC for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 12:13:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ppp.zz ([137.204.208.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by dcnode-02.unlimitedmail.net (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m19CCX9K028261 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:12:34 +0100 From: Etaoin Shrdlu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200802091312.40836.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802091328.39793.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner-From: shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 859be6b4-7efb-4501-a45f-c213f099a9a3 X-Archives-Hash: 76afb70c94db6df84fc4bbaf496374f5 On Saturday 9 February 2008, dell core2duo wrote: > Hi > check this link, > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Dell_Inspiron_1520#Wireless_Network > > It says that > > You should install the Windows driver from Dell if you would like to > take advantage of the full bandwith of your WLAN card (meaning 54 > MBit/s). !!FIXME!! If you would like to use the kernel driver, > probably you can but only with limited (11 MBit/s) bandwith. > Uhm, the b43 page does not mention this. I guess you just have to try and see. Personally, I always prefer in-kernel drivers rather than external when possible, especially in this case where the external driver is actually a kludge around windows drivers. > BTW, > I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my > second priority. As I said before, I did not have any problem (unfortunately, I cannot access the hardware now and check the bandwidth issue). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list