Lary, Almost forgot. I don't know if you checked the thread I menioned, but... I did everything that JoseJX suggested in the first post of the thread. When I do "modprobe bcm43xx", it oesn't produce any results, and just goes to OS prompt. The "dmesg" output just says: "bcm43xx driver".
This is current situation. Thank you. -----Original Message----- >From: Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sep 25, 2006 8:38 PM >To: Igor Korot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Card for testing > >Igor Korot wrote: >> Hi, Larry, >> Thank you for trying. Maybe together we can make it work, and not just for >> me... ;-) >> A little about my system. I have a Gentoo Linux with the gentoo-sources >> 2.6.17-r4 >> kernel installed. >> It runs fine, but not with the wireless web/network access. >> >> OK, now to the answers: >> 1. lspci -v gives following output: >> >> 0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN >> Mini-PCI Card (rev 01) >> Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0007 >> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 4 >> Memory at dfdfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] >> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 >> Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 >> Enable- >> Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0 >> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting >> Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel >> >> 2. the relevant part of lspci -n gives following: >> >> 0b:00.0 0280: 14e4:4311 (rev 01) > >It is a BCM4311 PCI-E card. > >> Also, from the thread at >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-409194-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html >> I heard that I have to apply the 10-pices patchset at >> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=114805420427939&w=2, >> but I didn't yet. >> Also, I am using the driver from the kernel... > >The driver in the 2.6.17 kernel does not handle PCI-E cards. I have >incorporated the 10-piece >patchset into my sources, but so far, the card doesn't quite work. I don't >know why at the moment, >as there are reports of it working for some users. One problem has been a lack >of control over the >"radio on/off" switch. > >Would it be possible for you to download the 2.6.18 kernel from kernel.org? If >you can, then get the >patch for 2.6.18_to_wireless_2.6 from ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches. The >patch contains all >the latest stuff for bcm43xx including the PCI-E patches. If you do try it, >please send me the >logged messages. > >Larry > > > _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
