Comment 70 for bug 630748

The .38 compat-wireless package can be found in maverick-proposed repository.

I just retested this on up-to-date maverick, with the compat-wireless-2.6.38 package from maverick-proposed and latest firmware from Intel (8.83.5.1, dated 2011-02-25).

Hardware is Acer Aspire One with Intel 5300 mini-pcie card and Netgear wndr3700 running official firmware and using 5GHz channels in either .11a or .11n modes.

This works fine with 11n_disabled, using .11a mode, with both drivers and firmware versions. Of course the speed is limited, but I can for example stream a 256k internet radio stream over http and use ssh terminal connection without any noticeable problems at the same time.

After removing the 11n_disable, the ssh terminal connections seems to have a noticeable lag and data comes in in bursts. This feels worse than with .11n disabled, although not as bad as with previous driver and firmware and the performance stays on a constant level without degrading over time.

Then after 5 to 10 minutes the data stops flowing. This time the driver doesn't oops, but notices the problem and forcibly reloads the card firmware. Data starts flowing again without manual intervention, except that the firmware reloading takes long enough to break audio streaming and some file transfers.

So better than previously, especially as the driver doesn't oops anymore, but I wouldn't call this usable yet.