Phil's Wifi (was HELP WINDOWS XP
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Aug 6 17:03:49 UTC 2008
Mark Haney wrote:
> Phil Bieber wrote:
>> This is not my thread,
it is now :-)
>> but I'll briefly outline my wifi "performance"
>
> Sounds to me like the wireless settings just need tweaking on your system.
Yeah. For instance, I ran my broadcom wireless under ndiswrapper on a
2.6.22 kernel, because it was more reliable than the native bcm43xx driver.
When I upgraded my kernel (to 2.6.26 because 2.6.24 never worked for me)
wireless got really flakey. It turned out I was still running a years-old
firmware (in fact, the kernel reported support would be discontinued in
July 2008 - which sounds suspiciously like "out of warranty" syndrome!).
Upgrading to the correct firmware has improved performance phenomenally.
So tell us what type of wifi you have, and what chipset.
--
derek
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