A new version of the new driver for Broadcom wireless devices is now available for testing. The problem with it for Linus's or the wireless-2.6 trees was the configuration of SSB. I modified the patch to automatically select the correct options to prevent this problem.
There are now three different versions of the patch - one for each supported tree: ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/BCM4301_for_2.6.22.patch ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/BCM4301_for_2.6.23.patch ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/BCM4301_for_wireless-2.6.patch The instructions are as follows: 1. Download the file and patch the source. 2. Configure it with 'make xconfig' or 'make menuconfig'. In "Networking/Wireless", select the mac80211 IEEE80211 networking stack. Deselect the other generic IEEE802.11 stack. Under Drivers/Network device support/Wireless LAN", select the BCM4301 driver with debugging support. 3. Build and install the kernel and modules. This version uses V3 firmware, the same as bcm43xx-softmac. Although it is planned that this driver will eventually support only the 802.11b-devices (BCM4301 and BCM4303), it currently supports all 802.11b and 802.11g devices. PLease report your results - good or bad. There have been hangs reported that may have been due to the misconfiguration fixed in the new versions. I'm still interested in any warnings and/or oops's. Thanks, Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
