Extracting firmware from Broadcom STA driver

2009-11-22 Thread Przemek Kulczycki
Hi. Is it possible to modify b43-fwcutter to extract firmware from the Broadcom's STA driver? http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php I'm asking about that because Canonical is distributing this driver as part of the Ubuntu CDs, so it would be possible to have a working b43 driver

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-22 Thread Larry Finger
On 11/22/2009 11:52 AM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Thursday 19 November 2009 22:24:29 Michael Buesch wrote: This rewrites the error handling policies in the TX status handler. It tries to be error-tolerant as in try hard to not crash the machine. It won't recover from errors (that are bugs in

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-22 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 22 November 2009 19:11:52 Larry Finger wrote: On 11/22/2009 11:52 AM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Thursday 19 November 2009 22:24:29 Michael Buesch wrote: This rewrites the error handling policies in the TX status handler. It tries to be error-tolerant as in try hard to not crash the

Re: Fatal DMA error problem with netbook and BCM4312

2009-11-22 Thread Chris Vine
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:15:12 + Chris Vine ch...@cvine.freeserve.co.uk wrote: WARM BOOT FROM KERNEL WITH WL MODULE INSTALLED The patched kernel makes no change on a warm boot in the sense that if I warm boot after initialising the wireless device with the wl module then the b43 module

Re: Fatal DMA error problem with netbook and BCM4312

2009-11-22 Thread Larry Finger
On 11/22/2009 01:03 PM, Chris Vine wrote: On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:15:12 + Chris Vine ch...@cvine.freeserve.co.uk wrote: WARM BOOT FROM KERNEL WITH WL MODULE INSTALLED The patched kernel makes no change on a warm boot in the sense that if I warm boot after initialising the wireless device

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-22 Thread Larry Finger
On 11/19/2009 03:24 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: This rewrites the error handling policies in the TX status handler. It tries to be error-tolerant as in try hard to not crash the machine. It won't recover from errors (that are bugs in the firmware or driver), because that's impossible. However,