Dale Walsh wrote: > I'm new to the list and new to firmware modification so hi everyone. > > I have a broadcom PCI card and I need to modify the vendor and product > ID's, in case it matters it's a LinkSYS WMP300N.
Does Apple white- (or black-) list PCI devices the same as HP does? > I've looked around for tools and came across something that looked > promising but it gave a URL of "git clone > http://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git"; and I have no clue what git is > or how to use it and cursory searches imply some kind of linux tool. git is the version-control system developed by Linus Torvalds and used to handle the Linux source and other projects within Linux. It could probably be built for Unix (i.e. the base OS for Mac, but it likely wouldn't be worth the effort.). > I have a semi linux environment available that allows me to > "configure/make" software so gnu related software can be built but rpm > and git and the likes don't apply to the OS so suggesting them wouldn't > be helpful since I can't use them. > > Since my everday OS isn't widely supported, I was hoping there was a > windows app that would read the sprom allow me to change the ID's and > write it back out to the card but I couldn't find anything (my search > skills suck). The sprom updating facility described above utilizes the /sys pseudo-file system of Linux and will never work on any other OS. Your only hope would be to find a user with Linux on his Apple hardware and build the ssb-sprom utility. If you were to place the resulting executable on a flash drive, you could boot the appropriate version of a live CD, then execute ssb-sprom from the flash device. The codes could also be changed by a Linux user with x86 (PC) hardware as long as the card will fit in their computer. > I have no problems using a CLI utility and navigation is not an issue. > > Hopefully someone can provide a link for a windows utility that fits my > needs or a GNU source package that can be built on the majority of *nix > based OSes that doesn't have many obscure external dependancies (I have > been know to compile things that don't normally compile on my OS). As explained above, this cannot happen. > So, to get the laughing over with I'll mention my OS, Darwin, yes you > heard it correctly, 5 different versions of it, Darwin7, Darwin8, > Darwin9, Mac OS X 10.4.x and Mac OS X 10.5.x, Mac OS X is Darwin based > so this explains why rpm's and git won't work for me. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
