[ubuntu-uk] My Hardy problems and their fixes

[Seif Attar]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 22:21 +0100, Gavin Ford wrote:
> I've had a few problems since upgrading to Hardy, now I've got most of them 
> sorted I thought it would be helpful to share the solutions I've found.
> 
> 
> 
> Broadcom WiFi was slow and unreliable
> This was down to defaulting to the Open Source Broadcom driver, which is 
> cripplingly slow and seemed to just plain stop in the middle of transfers.  
> Hopefully this will get better in future, but it's no use to me at the moment.
> 
> Simple solution was to disable the Free driver, then reinstall NDISwrapper.  
> Speeds climbed back from 60kB/s to 700kB/s on FTPs about the LAN.  Much better.
> 
> Useful info on stopping the OSS driver and re-enabling NDISwrapper here:
> http://www.ubuntu1501.com/2008/04/ndiswrapper-in-hardy-heron.html
> 

I had this problem too,  but today there was a kernel update to
2.6.24-17 that fixed the problem for me.

Peace,
Seif A.