I did what you suggested and just bcm43xx is loaded, but it does nothing. It creates no wireless interface.
dmesg ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bcm43xx driver lsmod |grep bcm bcm43xx 420705 0 ieee80211softmac 35265 1 bcm43xx ieee80211 35593 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac You said that I could compile my own kernel to fix the bitrate issue with bcm43xx-mac80211. Is that to say as of kernel 2.6.23 or so the bitrate issue will be fixed? On 8/2/07, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John H. wrote: > > I cannot find the site of which you speak. > > > > I can't seem to get it to let me use only bcm43xx and not bcm43xx-mac80211. > > > > Also, which firmware here is v3? > > If you run this script by John Linville, your system will use bcm43xx. It > will also download and > install the V3 firmware. > > Larry > > > ================================================= > #!/bin/sh > > BCM43XX_V3_FW="http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o"; > > wget $BCM43XX_V3_FW > > bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware -p .v3 wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o > echo 'blacklist bcm43xx-mac80211' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist > echo 'options bcm43xx fwpostfix=.v3' >> /etc/modprobe.conf > > modprobe -r bcm43xx-mac80211 # remove the new driver > > echo 'modprobe bcm43xx' >> /etc/rc.local > > BCM43XX_PCI_ID=`lspci -n | awk '$2 ~ "^0280" && $3 ~ "^14e4:43" { print $3 }' > | sed -e 's/:/ /'` > echo 'echo "'$BCM43XX_PCI_ID'" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bcm43xx/new_id' \ > >> /etc/rc.local > > /etc/rc.local > > ============================== > > > _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
