Hallo Hendrik,

Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Montag 07 Januar 2008 schrieb Michael Buesch:
>> What's the problem with all of this? Other drivers change firmware to
>> incompatible versions on a regular basis. Look at ipw2200. There was a time
>> when they changed the firmware basically on every kernel release.
>> That wasn't a problem. Why would it be a problem here?
>
> Modprobe cannot use different configs for different kernel versions, so the 
> fwpostfix option doesn't help in userspace.

Why not? Put something like this in your modprobe.conf

install b43 case "$(uname -r)" in 2.6.25*) /sbin/insmod b43 fwprefix=new;; 
/sbin/insmod b43;; esac

It's not tested. It should only illustrate the idea!

Bye, Jörg.
-- 
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 that would also stop them from doing clever things.”
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