Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 242183
BCM4311 Slow
Last modified: 2008-01-28 16:10:32 EST
Description of problem: Very slow speeds on wirless (google has a hard time loading) BCM4311 Also know as (from lspci) 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All versions How reproducible: Always a problem appears to get worse the longer it is on Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use a 03:00.0 Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01) actualy a BCM4311 chipset 2. 3. Actual results: Very slow speeds Expected results: Normal wifi speeds Additional info: this patch solves the problme, but is not in the kernel. Been using it sense feb with both vinella and fedora kernel. https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2007-February/003819.html
Please try the FC6.netdev kernels: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fedora-netdev/ Do these work any better for you?
This problem is resolved in the 2.6.22-rc4 kernel.
Please try the kernels here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=11202 Do they resolve the problem as well?
Just wanted to come in here and add the traditional "me too" for the broadcom 1390 using 2.6.22.1-27. I'm using the newer mac80211 driver just fine and everything is working, it's just that the speeds are very very slow.
Wanted to add that I also tried the more recent kernel-2.6.23-0.45.rc0.git16.fc8 and still the speeds were the same. Not sure if this included any type of fix but just thought it was worth noting. Mr. Linville, if you build anything else and would like me to test it please let me know. I really would like to help solve this problem any way I possibly can, so if you think of any other way I can help please do send an email.
Closed due to lack of response from original poster...