Chris Vine wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:50:13 -0500 > William Bourque <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] >> I was using the B43 (GPL) driver but with the proprietary firmware >> extracted from Broadcom crap with bfwcutter. >> The proprietary driver provided by Broadcom (what you refer as wl?) >> fails to even detect the card. They clearly hate their customers. > > I should be very surprised if it doesn't detect your card provided you > are using the right driver (and if you haven't compiled and installed a > driver called wl.ko then so far as the proprietary driver is concerned > you aren't). I did tried before, it succesfully built, it was loading (modprobe) correctly but no new interface was registered by it. However, I might have done something wrong, I will try it again to make sure it wasn't a PEBKAC problem.
> > If you want to take this further, you probably want to go to > http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php , > install the 32-bit or 64-bit driver according to your system, get the > wl.ko driver working and then try warm booting from that and seeing if > the b43 driver then works for you - it should. (You will need to copy > wl.ko somewhere into your working module directory by hand - it doesn't > really matter where - and after doing so run depmod -ae.) > > Note that this won't compile on 2.6.32-rc* without patching one of the > files in the broadcom package, so it would probably be best to install > it in a 2.6 31 (or earlier) kernel and warm boot from that. Right. Do you have a link to this patch? I would rather avoid downgrading my kernel. - William _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
