Re: b43-fwcutter patch for new firmware versions (508.1107 and 508.102)

2009-09-14 Thread Larry Finger
Daniel Lenski wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Daniel Lenski dlen...@gmail.com wrote: I have not found any other source of these, unfortunately. I am happy to send the extracted firmware to developers off-list if desired. Linksys's less-than-helpful GPL source code page gives no

Re: b43-fwcutter patch for new firmware versions (508.1107 and 508.102)

2009-09-14 Thread Daniel Lenski
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 22:01 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: I tried it on the file above and got the following: fin...@larrylap:~/WAG54GX2 ~/sprom/b43_fwcutter.py src.GPL/driver/2.6.8.1/extra/wl.ko Firmware md5sum is 4f1218df93c23b4e27c83cb208031a1d... Extracting a0g0bsinitvals2 of length 0x10

Re: b43-fwcutter patch for new firmware versions (508.1107 and 508.102)

2009-09-04 Thread Michael Buesch
On Thursday 03 September 2009 23:37:31 Larry Finger wrote: Daniel Lenski wrote: Larry, I agree on the ridiculously poor packaging... did I mention they're 1gb+ extracted? I didn't look at what is contained within that package, but we certainly don't need it. I have not found any

Re: b43-fwcutter patch for new firmware versions (508.1107 and 508.102)

2009-09-03 Thread Daniel Lenski
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 16:49 -0400, Daniel Lenski wrote: Both of these firmwares work on my BCM4311 laptop card in managed and monitor modes. When loaded, they identify themselves as newer firmware revisions than anything that b43-fwcutter currently knows about: On that note, is there a way to

Re: b43-fwcutter patch for new firmware versions (508.1107 and 508.102)

2009-09-03 Thread Daniel Lenski
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 16:13 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: I certainly would like to have access to the later firmware; however downloads of 338 and 340 MB seem a little silly just to get a few hundred KB of firmware. Have you found any other sources with 508.XX firmware? Larry, I agree on the

Re: b43-fwcutter patch for new firmware versions (508.1107 and 508.102)

2009-09-03 Thread Larry Finger
Sending to the list: Daniel Lenski wrote: On that note, is there a way to identify the ucode-version of b43 firmware without reloading the b43 driver? The dmesg output has it. A quick glance at the drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c suggests that the driver actually loads the firmware,

Re: b43-fwcutter patch for new firmware versions (508.1107 and 508.102)

2009-09-03 Thread Larry Finger
Daniel Lenski wrote: Larry, I agree on the ridiculously poor packaging... did I mention they're 1gb+ extracted? I didn't look at what is contained within that package, but we certainly don't need it. I have not found any other source of these, unfortunately. I am happy to send the

Re: b43-fwcutter patch for new firmware versions (508.1107 and 508.102)

2009-09-03 Thread Daniel Lenski
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 16:37 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: Daniel Lenski wrote: Larry, I agree on the ridiculously poor packaging... did I mention they're 1gb+ extracted? I didn't look at what is contained within that package, but we certainly don't need it. It appears to be the complete

Re: b43-fwcutter patch for new firmware versions (508.1107 and 508.102)

2009-09-03 Thread Gábor Stefanik
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Daniel Lenskidlen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 16:37 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: Daniel Lenski wrote: Larry, I agree on the ridiculously poor packaging... did I mention they're 1gb+ extracted? I didn't look at what is contained within that