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After much trial and error I have the usb dongle set up to share the internet connection using networkmanager in mageia2 x86-64 kde.

Broadcom 4323 dual band chip. Uses ndiswrapper and bmcwlhigh564 driver.

Next hard part: It only communicates at 802.11b/g. How do I get it up to 802.11n? At least I have some sort of internet access for the iPad.

Internet search turns up only expressions of grief. The Netgear forums say only "go see linux forums".
Does anyone have any insight?

Cheers

Is there an actual reason why you want 802.11n, like exchanging masses of data with other devices on the same local net? Or is it just out of principle?

Current connection is slow. Also I am trying to learn as much as I can about the process.

Cheers

What do you mean by slow please be more clear. Internet browsing, download speeds, page load times, transfers on local network or what exactly?
Also how do you measure it?

If you want to learn about the process overall, you may want to have a look at something like https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup because there are many different sides to such problems.

Actually, now that I have run a download to the iPad through the connection, the speed is OK. Seeing over 600kB on the Network Monitor.

Cheers

Well, nominally* a 54MBit connection could do ~6750kB, so where's the problem?

*: In reality you won't even get half of that, but that's still five times the download speed you measured, so the 802.11g connection is not the bottleneck.