On 26/08/11 19:41, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > After improving DMA (the important patch for BCM4331 is my one) we can finally > enable support for HT-PHY. The whole code has been written from MMIO dumps > grabbed from ndiswrapper+windows driver, but seems to be stable and was tested > by 3 people. Unfortunately there are still some missing conditions that can't > be fixed without RE the closed driver or having Broadcom co-operating. However > it seems we live with that well enough for basic usage :) > > BCM4331 doesn't have any Linux driver yet, both: wl and brcm80211 don't > support > it. So we can be really proud of it ;) Ah, and I should mention that > ndiswrapper > was frequently reported to lock up machines when working with this card (see > Ubuntu's forum about MacBook 8.1). > > To use b43 with BCM4331 you will need to grab the newest b43-fwcutter and > extract firmware from some recent closed source driver. See our wiki page in > few hours for nice howto. > > Big thanks go to David Woodhouse for providing me access to his MacBook, > letting > grab the dumps, test patches and debugging a lot of hard cases with me (and > sometime without ;) ). > > Larry Finger (1): > b43: Relax requirement for descriptors to be in the DMA zone > > Rafał Miłecki (2): > b43: use 8K buffers for 64-bit DMA to workaround hardware bug > b43: make HT-PHY support experimental > > drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig | 6 +++--- > drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++--------------- > drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.h | 3 ++- > 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) > > > _______________________________________________ > b43-dev mailing list > b43-dev@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
I've checked the wiki page and downloads area but the latest version of fwcutter that I could find was from several days ago. Can anyone direct me towards the latest b43-fwcutter download as mentioned above? Can't wait to get 4331 support! Many thanks
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