On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 12:11:07AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Otto Solares wrote:
> >On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 09:29:33PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> >>Otto Solares wrote:
> >>>On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 08:47:51PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> >>>>Here are some patches that port the pci bridge
> >>>>code of b43 to ssb. So with these patches it is
> >>>>possible to run b43 and your yet-to-be-ported
> >>>>b43legacy in parallel. The bridge code in ssb
> >>>>would always probe the correct driver.
> >>>Hi!
> >>>
> >>>Is the BCM4306 a b43 or b43legacy device?, I'm asking for
> >>>the WRT54GL which uses the SB bus.  Thanks!
> >>Yes ;-). It depends on the revision. The BCM4306/2 has a PHY revision of 
> >>1 and an 802.11 core revision of 4 - it uses b43legacy. The newer 
> >>BCM4306's use b43. The distinction is dependent on support in Broadcom V4 
> >>firmware.
> >
> >Hi!
> >
> >How can I tell the revision number in the WRT54GL?
> >
> >OpenWRT uses the propietary driver version 4.80.53.0, is that
> >a v4 firmware?  which b43 driver should I test (b43|b43legacy)?
> 
> The lead digit indicates that it is a V4 driver. You should use b43. The 
> other way to tell would be from the logs, if there are any in OpenWRT. The 
> key is in the details of the 802.11 core, which looks like "ssb: Core 1 
> found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x0A, vendor 0x4243)". If the rev is < 5, 
> the device must use b43legacy.

Ok, I run 'wl revinfo' in the WRT so I assume this is a rev 9 device
and must use the b43 driver? please correct me if I'm wrong:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# wl revinfo
vendorid 0x14e4
deviceid 0x4320
radiorev 0x22050000
chipnum 0x5352
chiprev 0x0
corerev 0x9
boardid 0x467
boardvendor 0x14e4
boardrev 0x10
driverrev 0x4503500
ucoderev 0x15f007e
bus 0x0

-otto
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