On Saturday 13 January 2007 07:20, Martin Langer wrote: >On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 06:49:50AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 13 January 2007 06:20, Martin Langer wrote: >> >On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 02:41:06AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> On Saturday 13 January 2007 01:47, Larry Finger wrote: >> >> >Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> >> The following is a message I'd posted to the fedora list >> >> >> earlier, with few replies. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 22:00, David Hollis wrote: >> >> >>> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:55 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> >>>> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 18:13, David Hollis wrote: >> >> >>>>> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 16:48 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Jan 10 16:04:21 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x13f, pl >> >> >> 0x66 (2005-10-15 22:46:19) >> >> >> Jan 10 16:04:21 diablo kernel: bcm43xx: Firmware: no support for >> >> >> microcode rev > 0x128 >> > >> >Your bcm43xx driver wants to have an old v3 firmware. And if you feed >> >it with newer v4 firmware you will get such a reaction. >> >> So in this respect, ndiswrapper is ahead of bcm43xx then as it had no >> problem like this. I have it connecting now with ndiswrapper loaded, >> but while ifconfig says the interface is up, apparently routes aren't >> being properly set to that interface. And I was too tired to >> investigate further, still am in fact. >> >> Could the low tx power Larry alluded to also be a bcm43xx problem? > >Yep, a problem with bcm4318 chips. [...] >> The rpms apparently do not maintain that fine a grain to the version >> numbers, all I get for the query --version is 004 > >If we say "v4" we mean the numbering scheme Broadcom uses "4.x.x.x". And >OTOH we use 00x for our fwcutter version numbering. Don't compare >them. They have nothing in common. Fwcutter versions 005 and 006 are >the ones whith the fix inside. If you run a "bcm43xx-fwcutter -l" you >can see the broadcom versions 3.x.x.x and 4.x.x.x which can be used for >firmware extraction. > I found an rpm of fwcutter 005 for FC6, but it needs rtld(GNU_HASH) which yum can't find for FC5.
In the meantime I've dl'd the dd-wrt srcs, which should have the other driver in it. I promise not to read the license... Maybe 004 can extract it. OTOH, if I could get cifs to accept a passwd 19 chars long, I'd just copy my pix and music dirs to this box and install FC6 on the lappy. That might simplify things in the long run. Thanks Martin. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
