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.


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