On 9/7/06, Martin Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:28:53PM +0200, Bin Zhang wrote:
> > On 9/7/06, Martin Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 04:51:08PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> > >> Martin Langer wrote:
> > >> > Those old microcodes 2 and 4 seem to have a different instruction set
> > >in
> > >> > their firmware than later ones. So I'm afraid that those old bcm43xx
> > >> > cores are based on a different microprocessor. And if they are really
> > >> > based on a different microprocessor then their drivers will probably
> > >> > have different problems. But this theory will only fit if your problems
> > >> > are limited to the 0x812 rev2/rev4 world. Just my $0.02.
>
> > I have this problem. This is the line in my syslog :
> > bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5, vendor 0x4243, disabled
>
> Ok, this will load bcm43xx_microcode5.fw which is one of the newer ones.
> So we can forget that idea. It can not related to those rare old ones
> only.
>
grep "bcm43xx: Core" /var/log/syslog gives me other numbers

Sep  7 14:44:17 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x4,
vendor 0x4243, enabled
Sep  7 14:44:17 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5,
vendor 0x4243, disabled
Sep  7 14:44:17 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x2,
vendor 0x4243, enabled
Sep  7 14:44:17 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x2,
vendor 0x4243, disabled
Sep  7 14:44:17 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x9,
vendor 0x4243, enabled


Thanks,
Bin

> Martin
>
> PS: Don't forget to send a copy of your mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> next time.
>
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