Michael Buesch escribió: > On Tuesday 26 February 2008 21:45:06 Martin Marques wrote: >> >> 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 normally wouldn't clone linus repo to compile my kernel. :-) My concern was related with the what firmware to have in an eventual kernel update... say when updating to Fedora 9 my laptop. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
