On Feb 01, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 02/01/2011 05:23 AM, Dale Walsh wrote:I had a hard drive failure which forced me to perform a fresh/cleaninstallation of ubuntu 10 on a new drive since the old drive no longerfunctions (it was rather old).My use of the b43 software is only for modification of the PCI ID's of the flashrom and the original installation was provided to me on the HD.Now I am unable to write the flashrom after the new installation italways reports "write error: Operation Not Supported" and this is usingthe same cards I was flashing before, I even tried using a previously modified card and I get the same failure. Since it worked before I can only conclude that the new software is broken and the ability to write is a requirement, can someone help me resolve this please.I do not doubt that the SPROM writing function is broken, but I wonder why you are needing it now. Why was it necessary to rewrite the SPROM in the first place? Once that was done, then it should never need to be done again. Pleaseexplain what you did and what you are doing now.
Since not all cards are created equal I take a card with specific features and functionality, change the ID's to my own for use with my own custom drivers which provides added functionality for cards with my ID's.
If the cards do not have my ID's they have the basic functionality that people are used to seeing, with my ID's they have the ability to run in simultaneous dual band mode (2.4ghz and 5ghz adhoc) and I use these ID's to ensure that the drivers only work on cards I approve.
My only need for linux is to rebrand the cards with my ID's.If I understood enough about the write mechanism I would forego the b43 code all together and create an app that reads and writes the flashrom but the time involved in sifting through the ubuntu code due to it's source structure makes it a daunting task that turns me off.
As before when working in the original installation (provided to me as a working installation) I would do the following: (both cat and cp fail)
sudo su; # become root to avoid permission issuescd /PATH TO DIR OF ssb_sprom; # I verify ssb_sprom exists in this location
rmmod b43; # unload the driver cat updated_sprom >ssb_sprom; # write the updated file This results in write failure under the new installation. cp updated_sprom >ssb_sprom This also results in a write failure under the new installation.
Larry
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