Pavel Roskin a écrit :
> You may want to use compat-wireless then:
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download
> 
> It's a backport of the current wireless drivers for the older kernels.
> The patch Michael asked us to test applies to it cleanly.

Thank you. I didn't know compat-wireless.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to make it work: b43 doesn't recognize
my wifi card.
I tried compat-wireless-2008-04-05 without the b43 patch.

On boot, b43 isn't loaded automatically (by udev) as usual. If I load it
with modprobe, I just get the following message:

> Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PML, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]

No card appears.

# With compat-wireless:
$ grep b43 modules.*
modules.alias:alias ssb:v4243id0812rev0D* b43
modules.alias:alias ssb:v4243id0812rev0B* b43
modules.alias:alias ssb:v4243id0812rev0A* b43
modules.alias:alias ssb:v4243id0812rev09* b43
modules.alias:alias ssb:v4243id0812rev07* b43
modules.alias:alias ssb:v4243id0812rev06* b43
modules.alias:alias ssb:v4243id0812rev05* b43
modules.alias:alias ssb:v4243id0812rev04* b43legacy
modules.alias:alias ssb:v4243id0812rev02* b43legacy
modules.dep:/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/compat-wireless/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko:
 /lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/compat-wireless/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko 
/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia.ko 
/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/kernel/drivers/base/firmware_class.ko 
/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/compat-wireless/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko 
/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/compat-wireless/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
modules.dep:/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/compat-wireless/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43legacy.ko:
 /lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/compat-wireless/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko 
/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia.ko 
/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/kernel/drivers/base/firmware_class.ko 
/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/compat-wireless/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko 
/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/compat-wireless/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko


# Without compat-wireless:
$ grep b43 modules.*
modules.alias:alias ssb:v4243id0812rev0D* b43
modules.alias:alias ssb:v4243id0812rev0A* b43
modules.alias:alias ssb:v4243id0812rev09* b43
modules.alias:alias ssb:v4243id0812rev07* b43
modules.alias:alias ssb:v4243id0812rev06* b43
modules.alias:alias ssb:v4243id0812rev05* b43
modules.dep:/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko: 
/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/kernel/drivers/base/firmware_class.ko 
/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko 
/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko 
/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-1/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko


JM

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