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chrisbuchholz

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2010-12-21

Posts: 25

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broadcom-wl on MBP; powermanagement=on makes connection so, so slow

Hey,

I run Arch on my MacBook Pro 5,5 and I use the broadcom-wl driver from AUR to get wifi working. And it does indeed work, but I think it has some powermanagement feature on, that sometimes decides that it should go to sleep and from then on, the connection is so, so slow. I found a fix where I set power=off like this:

iwconfig eth1 power off

and that will fix the problem. But only until the driver figures it should go to sleep yet again.

This happens maybe 1 time a hour, and I wonder if there is some way to tell the driver _never_ to go in to powersaving mode?

//chrisbuchholz