Dru Devore wrote: > I am not wanting to use the ndiswrapper. I only included that > information in the chance that there might be some information from it > could be useful. > > For the information you need and some more... > Ubuntu 7.04 > HP dv9000 > AMD dual core thing. > > This is from the firmware in the Ubuntu dist. > dmsg | grep bcm > [ 9122.176000] bcm43xx: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel > tainted. > [ 9122.180000] bcm43xx driver > [ 9122.188000] bcm43xx: Unsupported 80211 core revision 13 > [ 9122.192000] bcm43xx: Invalid PHY Revision 9
Are you sure Ubuntu distributed the firmware? Due to copyright restrictions, no one can distribute such firmware. What is allowed is distributing the program used to extract the firmware from a driver built for Windows or other operating systems. That driver may be the one installed when you bought the computer, or one downloaded from the webpile of a card vendor. Your card is never going to work with bcm43xx. Those revisions of the 80211 core and PHY are not in the V3 firmware, which is what that driver uses. It supports up to 80211 core revision 10 and PHY revision 8. Support for this unit will have to be in b43, which uses V4 firmware, but I don't think it is there yet. Our reverse-engineering group is down to two people and they are busy doing other things at the moment. If anyone reading this would like to help the bcm43xx project, that is where we need help. I would like to help there myself, but I'm contaminated because I'm working on the Linux driver. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
