Fedora - time to blink

[Pedro Francisco]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Maciek Borzecki
<maciek.borzecki at gmail.com> wrote:
> At Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:09:07 +0000,
> Pedro Francisco wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
>> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 19:25 +0000, Pedro Francisco wrote:
>> > > Just to add that laptop has iwl3945 wireless card; iwl3945 module has
>> > > had
>> >
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>>
>> Right thread though, he bashed things related to networking. He
>> mentioned he's using a T60p to test Fedora 16 so since T60p has an
>> Intel Wireless 3945 his wireless network performance is going to be
>> awful. That alone is sufficient to ruin a review.
>
> Indeed, the performance with current iwl3945 is unsatisfactory to say
> the least. I've filed a bug report here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753299 as the link
> throughput was stuck at 100kBps. Apparently enabling hardware scanning
> helps. However, once enabled, there will be occasional lockups due to
> scanning, which can be prevented by hardcoding AP SSID in the wireless
> settings.  So yeah, more and more things start to suck over time (not
> mentioning terrible 2D graphics performance, deteriorating with each
> release since KMS/Gallium inception).

You can do that or you can limit the frequencies your iwl3945 connects
to, which I did by telling the regulatory daemon only part of the
frequencies were allowed on my country. So now I've full 802.11bg and
partial 802.11a support, HW scanning and no firmware errors :)

P.S.: have you tried disabling sw_crypto as well to see if anything
else changes?