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  1. Bug #621265
  2. Comment #335

Comment 335 for bug 621265

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Nandan Vaidya (gotunandan) wrote :

I can confirm that the instructions mentioned by William Scheidegger (thanks a lot !!!) in post #334 work after updating the kernel to 2.6.35-28.

$ lspci -vnn | grep -A 1 Wireless
06:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection [8086:4222] (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection [8086:1000]
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44

$ uname -a
Linux nandan-Aspire-5920 2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 14:39:03 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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On the other hand, just using the "linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.37-2.6.35-28-generic" package did improve the download speeds at all.

Therefore I had to compile and install the latest compat-wireless drivers from :
http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2011-03-26.tar.bz2