I can't get b43 to work. I did a git of b43 a few weeks ago and after
I was told what rate control control algorithm (rc80211_simple). That
in hand I am still having some issues. First sysfs is off but udev is
changing things in funny ways. I boot the box unload all the modules
mac80211, cfg80211, ssb, b43, etc. Then I modprobe rc80211_simple
which loads mac80211 & cfg80211.

Here is some of my dmesg after the reload....

ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:01:00.0 disabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LK2E] -> GSI 19 (level,
high) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x11, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x0A, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 2 found: USB 1.1 Host (cc 0x817, rev 0x03, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 3 found: PCI-E (cc 0x820, rev 0x01, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:01:00.0
b43-phy1: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found
b43-phy1 debug: Found PHY: Analog 4, Type 2, Revision 8
b43-phy1 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2
phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'
udev: renamed network interface wmaster0 to eth1

Then I modprobe b43. udev renames the interface from wmaster0 to eth1
which I can't bring up.....

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported

So that is out but I have this other interface that just appears out
of no where called wlan0_rename. I can bring it up.

b43-phy2 debug: Loading firmware version 351.126 (2006-07-29 05:54:02)
b43-phy2 debug: Chip initialized
b43-phy2 debug: 32-bit DMA initialized
input: Unspecified device as /devices/virtual/input/input7
b43-phy2 debug: Wireless interface started
b43-phy2 debug: Adding Interface type 2
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0_rename: link is not ready
HW CONFIG: channel=1 freq=2412 phymode=2
phy2: TX to low-level driver (len=42) FC=0x0040 DUR=0x0000
A1=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff A2=00:14:a5:b7:54:15 A3=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
HW CONFIG: channel=2 freq=2417 phymode=2

I can wlist wlan0_rename scan but it has issues and seems to alter
eth1. Now I haven't yet tried this at a location with good signal
quality. I just want to understand what is happening with the
interface name(s).

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