Good morning Michael

Michael Buesch schrieb:
>>>
>>> you see these are two different pci ids. maybe that's the problem?
>> Ok thanks for catching the messages.
>> I think we have three different problems here.
>>
>> 1) We fail to fetch the MAC address from the ROM.
>> 2) We crash in the MAC failure codepath.
>> 3) We have an interrupt while the device is down.
>>
>> 2 and 3 are most likely trivial to fix, but 1 is a little bit strange...
>>
>> Do you get other messages from ssb about the SPROM?
>> For example checksum-failed or something like that...

I get this message every time I load b44 . No other messages.
Using kernel 2.6.22 and b44 version 1.01 there is no problem with the 
mac adress.
With newer kernels I sometimes saw this message, but networking 
continued to work. so maybe this is bug 2, too.

I just cheked it: booted 2.6.27.9 with init=/bin/bash
modprobe ssb (output like before)
don't load b43legacy.
modprobe mii
insmod b44.ko
hang with:

b44: invalid mac address found in EEPROM
b44 ssb0:1: Problem fetching invariants of chip,abording
b44: Probe of ssb0:1 faild with error -22

BTW: I think larry finger is on the mac problem:

> I'm nearly
> completed with a pretty extensive rewrite of ssb-sprom, and I would like an
> additional sample of a rev 8 device.


> 
> Are you using compat-wireless? If not, which kernel are you using excactly?
> Can you also try a "make mrproper" and complete rebuild?
> We have similiar things in the past due to mismatches in the data structures
> when compat-wireless or some other external driver package was used.
> 

I don't use compat-wireless - i sticked to unmodified kernels for better 
debugging.
It is a kernel 2.6.27.9 as downloaded from kernel.org
It is patched only with dell-laptop from matthew garret.
But I can do a clean compile.  What version do you like me to use? 
2.6.27.9 or 2.6.28?

bye
Ulf
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