Jan Kohnert wrote: > Hello Folks, > > First of all, sorry to bother you with that users-question, but the forum is > down for at least one week now... > > I have a problem with my bcm4311 card. > > As far as I read, it is now (2.6.21) fully compatible with the driver you > write.
Yes, that is true. > I'm using Gentoo x86_64 and have set up the card using your docs. I also > downloaded the firmware and used fwcutter to put it into /lib/firmware > and /lib64/firmware. These directories are correct, as I have a TV card, > also, which loads its firmware from that directory. > > But the bcm43xx module does not load any firmware and the card is not > correctly set up. There is no difference between the firmware in a 32- or 64-bit driver. The difference only matters when the original Windows or OS X driver is being used, as with ndiswrapper. There are, however, two different versions of the firmware. V3 is used with the softmac version of bcm43xx, which is the version you are using, and V4 is used with the mac80211 version. Please check the output of 'dmesg | grep bcm43xx'. I think it will say that your firmware is too new. You need to get a copy of a V3 driver and extract its firmware. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
