On Thursday 12 June 2008 04:20:04 Larry Finger wrote:
> Dale Walsh wrote:
> > I've been in touch with Broadcom a since I am considering having a card 
> > OEM'ed and it was discussed acquiring the API and a framework for driver 
> > programming in a custom OS so now I'm just waiting on approval.
> > 
> > Is there any other action I can take that would help???
> > 
> > Here is some information on the 11n based cards I have, I'm working on 
> > getting the b43 driver to recognize the card in the hopes that I can 
> > obtain a dump of the sprom data in case it's usefull.
> 
> I'm not sure the SPROM data will have any value at this time; however, 
> you need to have ssb recognize the device in order to get to the SPROM 
> values. That requires the PCI ID in ssb's tables. You will also need a 
> fairly recent kernel (2.6.26-rcX) if the devices have a 400 byte SPROM 
>   that is not rev 4. It may be necessary for b43 to be loaded, but the 
> SPROM can be read even if b43 doesn't recognize the device.

You don't need to load b43. Just modify ssb, load it and read the sprom
via /sys/foobar/ssb_sprom

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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