On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On Tuesday 20 November 2007 15:11:07 Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Monday 19 November 2007 23:36:44 Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>>>> b43 still does not work at all on ppc.
>>>>
>>>> This is absolutely _wrong_.
>>>
>>> Of course it is wrong, but apparently the only way to get attention to a
>>> blocker bug.
>>
>> I didn't hear about your bug before.
>>
>> Are you using latest driver from wireless-2.6 and the officially
>> supported firmware version from
>> http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
>
> I have now downgraded the firmware (I was foolishly assuming that all
> firmware versions recognized by b43-fwcutter are equally supported), and
> the error does not occur any more. Thanks for your help.
It sounds like b43-fwcutter will extract firmware that is not maximally
compatible with the b43 driver. If that's right, then it would be way
nice to print a notice to the user that he's extracting a
less-than-perfectly-supported firmware.
Yes, I'm willing to write this patch if people will point me to a table of
which firmware is maximally-supported. (If someone else writes it
instead, I'd prefer that, but if no one will then I can.)
I haven't actually been using a bcm43xx chip for wireless for about a
year, but I've been enjoying the list mail so I stayed on and read mails
casually. It sounds like there's one specific firmware that's
recommended; if so, then printing "Congratulations, you're using the
best-supported firmware as of ${RELEASE_DATE_OF_THIS_FWCUTTER}" in that
case would be easy, as well as "Warning! You're not using the
best-supported firmware as of ${RELEASE_DATE_OF_THIS_FWCUTTER}".
If it already does that now, then sorry for the noise!
-- Asheesh.
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Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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