Hi,
When I load the B43 driver on my Macbook Pro 6,2 ('rmmod wl; modprobe b43') all modules are loaded fine but no network device appears. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 (3.2.0-32). On this list I read that recompiling 'wireless-compat' with B43_BCMA_EXTRA='y' should help (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b43-dev/2012-March/002457.html). I don't feel like having to compile my own kernel as I used to , so I hoped installing 'linux-backports-modules-cw-3.3-precise-generic' would help. This didn't change much however (features L and S appeared in dmesg) for the b43 driver but broke the wl driver. It seems the option was deliberately disabled in the Ubuntu kernel: http://ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/PATCH-UBUNTU-Config-disable-CONFIG-B43-BCMA-EXTRA-td4975384.html :( Cheers, Jeroen. dmesg: [ 658.485734] bcma-pci-bridge 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 [ 658.485748] bcma-pci-bridge 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 658.485808] Core 0 found: ChipCommon (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x800, rev 0x22, class 0x0) [ 658.485833] Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x812, rev 0x17, class 0x0) [ 658.485890] Core 2 found: PCIe (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x820, rev 0x0F, class 0x0) [ 658.558019] Failed to get SPROM: -71 [ 658.558103] Bus registered [ 658.665460] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain [ 658.732673] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS ] [ 658.764829] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: [ 658.764833] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) [ 658.764835] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 658.764838] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 658.764840] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 658.764842] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 658.764844] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) lspci -vvn|grep 43 -A7: 03:00.0 0280: 14e4:4353 (rev 01) Subsystem: 106b:0093 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 256 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at c1b00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 lsmod: Module Size Used by b43 365785 0 mac80211 506816 1 b43 cfg80211 205544 2 b43,mac80211 bcma 26696 1 b43 ssb 52752 1 b43 grep BCM /boot/config-3.2.0-32-generic: CONFIG_CAN_BCM=m CONFIG_BT_HCIBCM203X=m CONFIG_B43_BCMA=y CONFIG_B43_BCMA_PIO=y CONFIG_MOUSE_BCM5974=m CONFIG_BCMA_POSSIBLE=y CONFIG_BCMA=m CONFIG_BCMA_BLOCKIO=y CONFIG_BCMA_HOST_PCI_POSSIBLE=y CONFIG_BCMA_HOST_PCI=y # CONFIG_BCMA_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_DVB_BCM3510=m CONFIG_BCM_WIMAX=m _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list b43-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev