Comment 46 for bug 124159

Hi there,

Try setting the rate to 5.5M as suggested in an earlier post. For me
this brings the throughput back up to normal. Assuming that your
wireless interface is eth1 then the following should work for you:

iwconfig eth1 rate 5.5M

Chris

dennda wrote:
> Hi,
> this is gutsy with latest updates.
> I have the very same issue, as it seems.
> Using this: 02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>
> I was very happy that Gutsy found my wireless-hardware and installed the drivers without ndiswrapper (although there still is a little issue with the lights being always on as reported here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/55308 )
> I couldn't connect with that card. It went fairly well with another PCMCIA-Card I connected from which I am writing this. I had no problems with the very same card under Feisty using ndiswrapper (not fwcutter).
> With Feisty and ndiswrapper I didn't need to adjust the cards speed manually.
>
> Actually the card was able to connect some minutes ago but the
> connection was VERY unstable and broke away soon enough.
>
> This needs to get fixed. :)
>
> regards
>
>