Florian Erfurth wrote: > Hi Larry, thank you very much! > > Von: Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Florian Erfurth wrote: >>> Von: Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> Those values are completely bogus. In the official bcm43xx-mac80211 >>>> trees, the code gives more >>>> realistic values, but those patches are not in FC7. >>> So do anyone of you know when will this patches applied into >> kernel/F7-kernel? >> >> You would have to ask the people that control FC. > Ok, I'll do that. > >>> Thank you for your information. So what do you suggest? Should I wait >> until the next kernel-version? >> > Or should I build my own bcm43xx_mac80211-module? >>> May I delete the bcm43xx_mac80211.ko, which came with rpm from f7d and >> replace this with >> >the newer ones from tree? >> >> You could build a new version of bcm43xx-mac80211 from the tree, but I >> suggest building and/or using >> the softmac version of bcm43xx (the one that uses V3 firmware) as long as >> you have the kernel >> sources. With 2.6.21 or later, no patches are required. > Umm... I'm using 2.6.21 (sorry, I forgot to mention that): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -a > Linux Turion 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Jun 12 14:56:37 EDT 2007 x86_64 > x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > <<< > >>> So why is there bcm43xx? Or is this module for older firmware (3.x)? If >> yes, >> >then I could use bcm43xx instead (with previously used firmware) until >> Fedora applied the needed >> patches? >> >> Yes, bcm43xx is for the V3 firmware, and uses SoftMAC for its MAC layer. >> Does your current kernel >> have bcm43xx already built? If so, just use it. > After modprobing bcm43xx no wlan0 appears in iwconfig. See below: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lsmod | grep bcm43 > bcm43xx_mac80211 415137 0 > ssb 43589 1 bcm43xx_mac80211 > mac80211 164297 2 rc80211_simple,bcm43xx_mac80211 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rmmod bcm43xx_mac80211 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rmmod rc80211_simple > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lsmod | grep mac80211 > mac80211 164297 0 > cfg80211 17745 1 mac80211 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rmmod mac80211 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rmmod cfg80211 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rmmod ssb > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# iwconfig > lo no wireless extensions. > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > vmnet8 no wireless extensions. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modprobe bcm43xx > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# iwconfig > lo no wireless extensions. > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > vmnet8 no wireless extensions. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dmesg > [snip] > bcm43xx driver > <<< > Hm... what could be wrong? Did I forgot somewhat?
Did you switch back to V3 firmware? Check dmesg for any diagnostic messages. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
