Re: Help with bcm4328 revision 5

2008-02-12 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
2008/2/12, Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Well, we're not talking about something being broken here.
 It's simply not implemented, yet.


If you needs tester to test new code let me know.

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Cheers,

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Re: Help with bcm4328 revision 5

2008-02-12 Thread Michael Buesch
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 20:01:59 Gene Heskett wrote:
 On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Michael Buesch wrote:
 On Tuesday 12 February 2008 18:48:30 Pavel Roskin wrote:
  On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 14:38 -0200, Alan Carvalho de Assis wrote:
   Hi,
   I am testing kernel 2.6.25-rc1 to get my Broadcom Corporation BCM4328
   802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03) working.
 
 The device won't work. No matter what you try.
 
 If its any consolation Michael, 2.6.25-rc1 also broke the nvidia-169.09 
 driver 
 too.

Well, we're not talking about something being broken here.
It's simply not implemented, yet.

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Re: Help with bcm4328 revision 5

2008-02-12 Thread Michael Buesch
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 19:47:47 Alan Carvalho de Assis wrote:
 Why this device don't work?

because support for draft-N devices is not yet implemented. 

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Re: Help with bcm4328 revision 5

2008-02-12 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
2008/2/12, Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 On Tuesday 12 February 2008 18:48:30 Pavel Roskin wrote:
  On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 14:38 -0200, Alan Carvalho de Assis wrote:
   Hi,
   I am testing kernel 2.6.25-rc1 to get my Broadcom Corporation BCM4328
   802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03) working.

 The device won't work. No matter what you try.

Michael, as Pavel said the driver set the revision to 4. I confirmed it doing:

if (out-revision = 5)
goto unsupported;
}

ssb_dprintk(KERN_DEBUG PFX New SPROM revision %d
detected.\n, out-revision);
return 0;

It show me New SPROM revision 4 detected.

Why this device don't work?

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Re: Help with bcm4328 revision 5

2008-02-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 14:38 -0200, Alan Carvalho de Assis wrote:
 Hi,
 I am testing kernel 2.6.25-rc1 to get my Broadcom Corporation BCM4328
 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03) working.

You probably want to be on the everything branch of the wireless-2.6
repository to help with this.  Not all patches go into 2.6.25-rc1.

 ssb: SPROM revision 5 detected. -

From what I see in drivers/ssb/pci.c, even though 5 is printed, it is
later set to 4 for BCM4328:

   } else if (bus-chip_id == 0x4321) {
   /* the BCM4328 has a chipid == 0x4321 and a rev 4 SPROM */
   out-revision = 4;
   sprom_extract_r4(out, in);

Otherwise, you would also see Unsupported SPROM revision in the kernel
log.

 ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device :03:00.0
 
 Although ssb module is loaded automatically and correctly, the module
 b43 is not loaded automatically, even if I create a
 /etc/modprobe.d/b43 (alias wlan0 b43).
 
 Issuing modprobe b43 loads the module but don't raises wlan0 and
 don't show any log info.

Try adding revision 12 to the device table.

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
index afb1094..aa174da 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ static const struct ssb_device_id b43_ssb_tbl[] = {
SSB_DEVICE(SSB_VENDOR_BROADCOM, SSB_DEV_80211, 9),
SSB_DEVICE(SSB_VENDOR_BROADCOM, SSB_DEV_80211, 10),
SSB_DEVICE(SSB_VENDOR_BROADCOM, SSB_DEV_80211, 11),
+   SSB_DEVICE(SSB_VENDOR_BROADCOM, SSB_DEV_80211, 12),
SSB_DEVICE(SSB_VENDOR_BROADCOM, SSB_DEV_80211, 13),
SSB_DEVTABLE_END
 };

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Re: Help with bcm4328 revision 5

2008-02-12 Thread Michael Buesch
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 18:48:30 Pavel Roskin wrote:
 On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 14:38 -0200, Alan Carvalho de Assis wrote:
  Hi,
  I am testing kernel 2.6.25-rc1 to get my Broadcom Corporation BCM4328
  802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03) working.

The device won't work. No matter what you try.

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