On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:28:47 +0200 Patrik Lembke <bla...@chebab.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 18:02:24 +0930 Karl Goetz <k...@kgoetz.id.au> > wrote: > > Hi all, could someone with a badcom card please try and reproduce > > this bug[1]? > > > > What I'm hoping to know is; > > - Does it happen to you > > - what kernel module is causing the message > > > > [1] http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00308 > > kk > > > > Yes It did until I added the free firmware. > > It is a message stored in /drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c (in > 2.6.28.1 row 1998) > Line 1572 in 2.6.24. > KFV link > http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel/Ubuntu-hardy-linux-2-6-24-12-22--drivers--net--wireless--b43 > > A patch for the later kernels who can use the free (2.6.28 looks like > it can) could be to just replace this with something nicer telling the > user how to install the OpenFWWF firmware. > > text = "You must install the openfwwf firmware, instructions can be > found at NiceGnewsenseWikiPage\n"; We don't currently have such a page :( > And it do look quite possible to patch the module so It won't be able > to load the non-free firmware. I don't want to do that (even though Linux-libre does it). > Just replacing what is said in main.c:2302 inside that else with > something similar to: > > b43err( dev->wl, "Sorry the firmware your trying to use is not > supported since it's non-free\n" ); > goto error; This is what I'm doing for my test runs - if someone makes NiceWikiPage before I apply the fix then we can link there instead :) static void b43_print_fw_helptext(struct b43_wl *wl) { b43err(wl, "Unfortunately this driver requires non-free firmwork to function.\n"); } kk -- Sent mobile, appologies for no GPG sig. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev