On 27/08/11 14:22, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > 2011/8/27 James Anslow <ja...@jamesanslow.net>: >> On 27/08/11 11:22, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >>> 2011/8/27 James Anslow <ja...@jamesanslow.net>: >>>> 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(-) >>>>> >>>> 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! >>> Just use the howto for kernel 3.2 (I know it's a little tricky for now >>> to use 3.2, wireless-next is also OK for that howto): >>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Other_distributions_not_mentioned_above >>> >>> You have to: >>> 1) Clone git repository wireless-next >>> 2) Apply 3 patches from this patchset >>> 3) Compile kernel with B43_PHY_HT >>> 4) Install firmware (I think you already started that part) >>> >>> b43-fwcutter in 015 version is alright for extracting 666.2 firmware. >>> >> Thanks for your support on this. >> >> I'm not too knowledgeable when it comes to kernel development. However, >> I am eager to learn. >> >> I've cloned the repo and have wireless-next. >> >> Can you tell me where I will find these 3 patches to apply them to >> wireless-next? > You can find them on b43-dev ML archive. You can copy them and paste > into 3 separated text files. > > However to make it easier to you, I've also uploaded them to http server: > http://files.zajec.net/enable-ht/0001-b43-Relax-requirement-for-descriptors-to-be-in-the-D.patch > http://files.zajec.net/enable-ht/0002-b43-use-8K-buffers-for-64-bit-DMA-to-workaround-hard.patch > http://files.zajec.net/enable-ht/0003-b43-make-HT-PHY-support-experimental.patch > > Save all that 3 files on your disk and then do: > > cd /foo/bar/wireless-next > git am 0001-b43-Relax-requirement-for-descriptors-to-be-in-the-D.patch > git am 0002-b43-use-8K-buffers-for-64-bit-DMA-to-workaround-hard.patch > git am 0003-b43-make-HT-PHY-support-experimental.patch > > After that use "make menuconfig", enable BCMA, enable support for BCMA > in b43 and enable HT support in b43. > Thanks for your help.
Will I find the ability to enable support for BCMA and HT support in the menuconfig file or elsewhere?
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
_______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list b43-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
