Re: Re[2]: [Ndiswrapper-general] Re: Ralink ra2500 & Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g - bad performance, high 'invalid misc' and 'tx excessive retries'

[<ro...@ex...>]

Hi,

> you may try another driver for this chipset (v. 3.100.35):
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6w4b6

Thanks! I upgraded back to the current ndiswrapper & tried this last nigh=
t
and the "invalid misc" and "tx excessive retries" are now both zero and
the connection seems much more stable, however I'm getting warnings that
the driver causes memory leaks (and the machine kernel panics with a "not
syncing" error shortly after) -- did you encounter this?

Performance has improved to about 700 KB/sec, so I have the feeling I'm o=
n
the right track now. Just for comparison, I'm configuring a clean gentoo
box, and going to attempt to install both the cards in there for
comparison.

Also, does have the kernel pre-emptible options enabled affect ndiswrappe=
r?

Thanks again to everyone for the comprehensive replies.

Cheers,

Robin