Comment 8 for bug 94972

I looked around for instructions on how to apply the patch, but couldn't
find anything that helped, so how do apply the patch? Are there
instructions anywhere?

On 01/04/07, Ryan Hurley <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I have the same card, and I'm seeing the same problem. Using the
> current stock Ubuntu kernel, speeds max out at about 20 KB/second, no
> matter where the traffic is coming from (LAN or Internet.) If I recall
> correctly, this problem was noticed and fixed quite awhile ago by the
> bcm43xx team. The current version of the driver (as seen with a
> 2.6.20.4 vanilla kernel, and appropriate patches from the bcm43xx
> maintainer's (Larry Finger) site here:
> ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/ ) is very fast- almost up to the
> speeds exhibited in windows. I believe that patches exist for
> everything from 2.6.20 through 2.6.21-rc5, and I also think that all of
> the patches bring the code up to the same level of performance.
>
> I know the devs are flooded with work for Feisty, but this is a huge
> issue for anyone with a Broadcom card (which is almost everyone with a
> built-in HP or Apple wireless card) that seems (at least to my untrained
> eye) to be relatively easy to fix. If at all possible, it would be
> awesome for feisty to have decent Broadcom support out of the box
> (ignoring the issues with firmware- perhaps that could be addressed
> using the restricted drivers manager? I don't know.)
>
> --
> Broadcom 43XX (4311) does not work?
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/94972
>