3.4 BE x86 wifi good and bad news.

[WarraWarra]

The mac mini atheros works 100% out of the box.
Bad news bcm43xx type cards or the bcm4311 (dell 1390) I have works but gets to max 50% power.
I tried to load the bcm43xx module only after unloading the mac80211 , bcm43xx_macsoft , rc80211 etc modules but could not find it.

This is not a major problem for me or for anyone as it just needs a bit of fine tunning to get it fixed.
This might also be totally different on other bcm43xx cards as mine is know to be DELL experience and others might work 100%.

I have a clue that the laptop powersaving tries to force powersaving on the wifi card and so the signal goes less but the actual download speed is still 95% of what it should be. Might limit distance in actuality.

Sucking my thumb here to figure it out. LOL

[fluxam]

Hmm, /\ that's interesting -- I'd try the 32-bit one on my (32-bit) Macbook except that I despaired on Linux and got Vista working a dream.
But, I stopped by to report that there's no wi-fi detected with the live 64-bit DVD on this Sony Vaio SZ-330P. That quite surprised me because Sabayons have hitherto provided excellent wifi. I'm keeping fingers crossed that the 3.4 release will not bork that -- it was fine in loop 3.

[Dark_MaGe]

The mac mini atheros works 100% out of the box.
Bad news bcm43xx type cards or the bcm4311 (dell 1390) I have works but gets to max 50% power.
I tried to load the bcm43xx module only after unloading the mac80211 , bcm43xx_macsoft , rc80211 etc modules but could not find it.

This is not a major problem for me or for anyone as it just needs a bit of fine tunning to get it fixed.
This might also be totally different on other bcm43xx cards as mine is know to be DELL experience and others might work 100%.

I have a clue that the laptop powersaving tries to force powersaving on the wifi card and so the signal goes less but the actual download speed is still 95% of what it should be. Might limit distance in actuality.

Sucking my thumb here to figure it out. LOL

no warra it's normal but if you keep on looking you'll notice that despite the 50% signal strength it will rise up soon to 54 Mbit instead of the usual 24 Mbit of the softmac driver, mac80211 works like this: "first I set a connection at slower speed/max power" (that means better connection over far distances), "then if it stable enough I'll increase slowly connection speed", that's a bit of change compared to the softmac driver that tries first to set up the connection at max speed and then slowdown to save link stability. As far as bcm43xx cards the driver says a wrong signal strength, but it will rise up as well the other, just give it time, and check left clicking on knetworkmanager from time to time the connection speed

[WarraWarra]

Wow that sounds good. Just thought I have a problem but seems not TY .

[fluxam]

I did just try x86 on my week #1 Macbook. Wi-fi sensitivity and connectivity seemed very good, though umpteen networks were listed at strength 100 even though I know they're much weaker.
I was surprised that the Logitech bluetooth mouse was recognized, but the wheel wasn't. Resolution was 1024x768 with no ready way to reset to 1280x800. The two-finger touchpad tricks and such weren't recognized.
I suppose those things could be fixed. I'm not optimistic that the camera ever would work. But the greater problem is how to install to hard drive after the drive already is partitioned just in two with a very well working Vista (I've got rEFIt for OS selection).
Maybe there's a "How To" describing how to do this scary job?

[WarraWarra]

Screen res can be changed at boot with selecting boot option and F5 then adding "res=1280x800 " or inside using the ati control panel . I add "xdriver=nvidia res=1440x900"

Mouse should be the synaptics mouse pad but not sure here.

It should work with 1 partition windows and another for linux. It supports EFI already.
My problem was with OSX + SL and getting it to boot.

Code: Select all

I suppose those things could be fixed. I'm not optimistic that the camera ever would work. But the greater problem is how to install to hard drive after the drive already is partitioned just in two with a very well working Vista (I've got rEFIt for OS selection).


Not sure about Vista + SL but it is just windows so should not be serious as it will only replace the boot menu with grub. Might wait for someone that knows more about this EFI boot menu etc .
Check gentoo.org forums as I have seen several persons there with Apple's and Gentoo , SL is a fancy Gentoo.

Hope this helps.