On Sunday 02 August 2009 16:43:18 Tomek Chrzczonowicz wrote: > > Sadly I think the OpenFWWF firmware still has non-free parts (from the > > page you sent a link to): > > > > "To make the firmware work properly you need at least 2 more files > > that > > must be extracted from original Broadcom drivers:" > > > > Until that is fixed I don't see how its much better to recommend > > OpenFWWF. > > The newest version is free. I and Alexandre Oliva checked it. Those 2 > files are build from commented OpenFWWF sources and no longer require > any files to be extracted from the proprietary driver. > > You need linux-libre 2.6.30 to use it, though. It needs to be placed > in /lib/firmware/b43-open and "options b43 qos=0 nohwcrypt=1" be added > to /etc/modprobe.d/options. > > That statement at the bottom is confusing, but if you read through all > the news then you see that this dependancy on non-free parts was > dropped. > > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
Yup, what Tomek says is correct, that information is outdated. I have OpenFWWF and it works, but with heavy network load it makes my kernel panic :( I did not have the nohwcrypt=1 option, though. I didn't see anything about that anywhere when I installed it. I just added it and I'll check again if that makes any difference and my kernel panics disappear. Namaste, Leonardo -- KDE Argentina http://www.kde.org.ar #kde-ar @ irc.freenode.net -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html email /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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