On Tuesday 26 February 2008 21:45:06 Martin Marques wrote: > Johannes Berg escribió: > > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 07:34 +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > >> I tried to find this info on > >> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware but I > >> couldn't find info about 2.6.25-rcX kernel. Which version of firmware > >> should I use then? Could someone update this wiki to avoid similar > >> questions in future? > > > > > > The wiki says > > > > b43 > > > > Bleeding edge, i.e. compat-wireless-2.6 package, linus-2.6 or > > wireless-2.6 trees > > > > 4.150.10.5 > > > > b43-fwcutter v. 011 > > > > > > Isn't that obvious enough? > > It should indicate where the new firmware has to be used, or will be > used (I think it was for kernel 2.6.25 the firmware change). > > Any ways, checking on the openwrt sources I saw that there was a "newer" > version of the firmware (broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.1.tar.bz2), which should > be updated on the wiki.
The bleeding edge kernel prints the unique ID of the firmware that it needs at module load time. Looks like "FW13" where the 13 might be different for you. I don't remember. So you need to get the firmware with the unique ID FWxx. There's absolutely no need to make it even more clear and more unique. Because people will _still_ complain that something stupid is unclear if we do that. If somebody is not able to solve such a trivial issue like loading the right firmware, he's not the right person to test bleeding edge code anyway. Because if it comes to bugreporting he will also fail to do that properly. That's no personal attack at you, but it's a technical fact that most people work that way. You might be different, I hope. :) I absolutely see no need to add anything to the page or the driver to make identification of the right firmware even better. We already added _lots_ of stuff in the past to make life for users easier. Such as printing the URL for where to get the firmware from. But I think somewhere there is a borderline where additional stuff will just be bloat and people will _still_ get it wrong. And I think we reached that borderline. -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
