Re: [PATCH 2.4.19-pre3] New wireless driver API part 1

[Oliver Xymoron]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, David Gibson wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:49:15AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Bjorn Wesen wrote:
> >
> > >Just a datapoint:
> > >
> > >The orinico driver (already in the kernel) works fine with the DWL-650
> > >card. Tried it some days ago.. not a very big field trial but I inserted
> > >the card and I got an eth0 from it and it worked, so thats the way I like
> > >it :)
> >
> >
> > Not "just" a datapoint, a useful one.  Thanks.
>
> Sadly not everybody is having as much luck.  A lot of people are
> reporting terribly throughput on Intersil cards like the DWL-650 and I
> haven't managed to track the problem down yet.

Here's some further datapoints:

Vaio Z505SX, kernels through 2.4.16 - works great
IBM T22, 2.4.16+sound, 2.4.17+lowlatency-sound - works great
T22, 2.4.18+ and 2.5.5 - 2-3K/s

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