Re: [OT] Git trouble

2008-09-03 Thread Pavel Roskin
git, please ask them in the git list. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Broadcom's own driver: firmware?

2008-08-30 Thread Pavel Roskin
from it when setting up b43. This would finally solve the Firmware Minefield issue caused by distros not being able to ship firmware for b43 in any way. That's a question to distros. I think they have good reasons not to ship non-free software with restrictive licenses. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: bcm4306 with 2.6.25 on Fedora

2008-07-27 Thread Pavel Roskin
is waiting, or run wpa_cli -i wlan0 reassociate It is a known problem, but I think dhclient is entirely to blame. Bringing the interface down goes well beyond the zone of responsibility of dhclient, as it affects the lower layers that need to stay connected and keep their state. -- Regards, Pavel

Re: Regression (FC8 to FC9)

2008-06-25 Thread Pavel Roskin
or by configuration changes. Finding out is the first step. Then look for the patch or for configuration change that affects the problem. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo

Re: ssb-sprom application issues.

2008-06-25 Thread Pavel Roskin
be restructuring of ssb-eeprom to make inconsistencies unlikely and to allow accumulating information about new SPROM formats without having to change the code too much. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https

Re: More discrepancies in ssb-sprom

2008-06-25 Thread Pavel Roskin
is effective is diminished exponentially by the amount of power being generated. I suggest that you introduce a new field in ssb-sprom, call it antenna-shape and put yagi there. That would greatly help with both reception and transmission :-) -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: BCM 4325 support

2008-06-24 Thread Pavel Roskin
whole messages and answer the questions you are asked. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: ssb-sprom application issues.

2008-06-24 Thread Pavel Roskin
= SPROM_ANTENNA_GAIN + 1; } else { desc = Antenna 0 Gain; offset = SPROM4_ANTENNA_GAIN; -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de

Re: ssb-sprom application issues.

2008-06-24 Thread Pavel Roskin
= SPROM4_ANTENNA_GAIN; } value = sprom[offset + 1]; That's misleading. You are telling users that the data is at offset 0x75, but you are reading it at 0x76. Your code is consistent, but I don't see any evidence that it's correct. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

More discrepancies in ssb-sprom

2008-06-24 Thread Pavel Roskin
structure should be described as a table for every SPROM revision in a format like this: ID, name, byte offset, bit offset, bit size That should solve the problem of synchronization between read and write functions. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx

Re: More discrepancies in ssb-sprom

2008-06-24 Thread Pavel Roskin
. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: b43legacy kernel warning

2008-06-17 Thread Pavel Roskin
only expects B43legacy_PHYTYPE_B (1) or B43legacy_PHYTYPE_G (2) in the lower two bytes of chanstat, but it's 0. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

[PATCH] b43-tools typos

2008-06-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
. */ -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: hybrid-wl compilation

2008-06-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
symbols: File in wrong format I guess you are trying to link an i386 object file into a mips kernel. Binaries are for one architecture only. Welcome to the closed source world. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev

Re: b43 opensource firmware for monitor mode

2008-06-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
, even to an AP with no security. But there are no hangs whatsoever. That's core rev5 (bcm4306). -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: b43 opensource firmware for monitor mode

2008-06-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 01:20 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: On Friday 13 June 2008 00:22:39 Pavel Roskin wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 14:08 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: You can try the latest firmware from git, btw. It should be (partially) fixed there. I've tried the today's

Re: b43 and card recognition.

2008-06-08 Thread Pavel Roskin
hardware with many potential users. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

RE: b43legacy: Problems with dhclient

2008-06-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
to the particular driver. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: b43 opensource firmware for monitor mode

2008-06-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
in that direction. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

[PATCH] mac80211: fix panic when using hardware WEP

2008-06-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
57ccbb1cbe3f8e10a500ff8b9fb26dc1a542fe99 misplaced code for setting hardware WEP keys. Move it back. This fixes kernel panic in b43 if WEP is used and hardware encryption is enabled. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/mac80211/wep.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions

Re: Wireless-testing's b43 panics in b43_generate_txhdr on packet transmit

2008-06-01 Thread Pavel Roskin
. But most importantly, there is a suspicious change in wep_encrypt_skb() - the key is set in the other branch of the condition. I'll try to restore the original logic in wep.c. I'll post a patch if it works. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev

Re: Wireless-testing's b43 panics in b43_generate_txhdr on packet transmit

2008-06-01 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 00:08 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: wep_encrypt_skb() in wep.c would not return TX_CONTINUE. But most importantly, there is a suspicious change in wep_encrypt_skb() - the key is set in the other branch of the condition. I'll try to restore the original logic in wep.c

Re: Wireless-testing's b43 panics in b43_generate_txhdr on packet transmit

2008-05-31 Thread Pavel Roskin
with wpa_supplicant (because it's configured to recognize many networks, some of which are with WPA). I don't know if it's relevant. It's Fedora 9 for x86_64, but NetworkManager is disabled. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev

Re: Wireless-testing's b43 panics in b43_generate_txhdr on packet transmit

2008-05-31 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 18:54 +0200, Stefanik Gábor wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's strange that other drivers (b43legacy, ath5k) use info-control.hw_key-hw_key_idx under the same conditions (see how use_encryption is calculated), but don't

Re: cancel_work_sync() question

2008-05-31 Thread Pavel Roskin
, compat-wireless aims to bring newer wireless drivers to older kernels. It may work for you. If it doesn't, and if compat-wireless still aims to support Linux 2.6.21, you can report the failure as a bug in compat-wireless. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: [PATCH] b43legacy: Fix controller restart crash

2008-05-30 Thread Pavel Roskin
this patch also fixes). Anyone get a chance to test this one? Yes, the patch is fine. Unloading b43legacy hangs without the patch and works properly with the patch. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de

Re: no scan results BCM94311MCG

2008-05-21 Thread Pavel Roskin
if they are accessible. Also try ndiswrapper to rule out problems unrelated to the b43 driver. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: no scan results BCM94311MCG

2008-05-21 Thread Pavel Roskin
-modules don't compile against 2.6.25 kernels yet. compat-wireless supports 2.6.22 and newer. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH] b43: Upload both beacon templates on initial load

2008-05-20 Thread Pavel Roskin
, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH] b43: Fix typo in firmware file name for 802.11 cores with rev 13

2008-05-15 Thread Pavel Roskin
to start a flamewar :-) -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: 4311 v2 Bail - 2.6.26-rc2

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 09:19 +0100, Daniel wrote: buffer size7wlan0: wrong buffer size The missing newlines are fixed in today's wireless-testing repository. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https

Re: 4311 v2 Bail - 2.6.26-rc2

2008-05-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
the code complains about some invalid frames and drops them. Somebody with a better knowledge of the code should write better descriptions and make the messages different. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de

Re: sucess with HP-laptop dv6057ea

2008-05-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
hack. bcm4328 is not supported and is not expected to be supported soon unless more people help with reverse engineering efforts. The driver page mentions that bcm4328 is not supported: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: Ubuntu systems

2008-05-10 Thread Pavel Roskin
my receipt to Stefano), and there is more than enough for a minimal Dell Inspiron or Vostro. Vostro 1000 with 64-bit AMD CPU and bcm4312 (1490) is $434 now in the US (plus shipping and tax). -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx

Re: Ubuntu systems

2008-05-10 Thread Pavel Roskin
a BCM4310, which has an LP-PHY and is the reason I'm working on the RE for that device. If the developers feel that a new laptop would be desirable, I certainly would not object; however, we do have coverage for these devices. I see, good to know. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

2008-04-28 Thread Pavel Roskin
, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

2008-04-24 Thread Pavel Roskin
something they know least about, i.e. the hardware. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Success with bcm4311 and rewrite-lo-calibration

2008-04-20 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 20 April 2008 05:43:18 Pavel Roskin wrote: Hello! It looks like all tests with the experimental LO calibration code were for bcm4306 and bcm4318. So I downgraded my Dell laptop from bcm4328 to bcm4311 (PCIe Mini Card), so that I can cover

Success with bcm4311 and rewrite-lo-calibration

2008-04-19 Thread Pavel Roskin
, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Problems with PCI (not Cardbus) BCM43xx

2008-04-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
T30 laptop, which has a MiniPCI slot. No problems whatsoever. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: b43: 1 second freeze every 2 minutes - works with bcm43xx

2008-04-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 15:51 +0200, Julien Muchembled wrote: Pavel Roskin a écrit : If you don't see in in the kernel log, then it's the ssb module that doesn't want to work with your PCI card. Indeed the problem is in ssb: no alias at all. There is a missing option in config.mk I've

Re: b43: 1 second freeze every 2 minutes - works with bcm43xx

2008-04-05 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 01:27 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pavel Roskin a écrit : You may want to use compat-wireless then: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download It's a backport of the current wireless drivers for the older kernels. The patch Michael asked us to test applies

Re: [PATCH RFT] b43: We need lots of regression testing

2008-04-05 Thread Pavel Roskin
control what probe requests are being sent. But I think we should be consistent and avoid returning results of scans with different parameters. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de

Re: [PATCH RFT] b43: We need lots of regression testing

2008-04-05 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 23:06 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: I'll try to get 4318 tested over the weekend. It's just as good as bcm4306. b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 3, Type 2, Revision 7 b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 8

Re: b43: 1 second freeze every 2 minutes - works with bcm43xx

2008-04-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Urgent help needed: Broadcom 4318 SPROM corruption

2008-03-31 Thread Pavel Roskin
shows up and I can flash it back to the proper BCM4318? Look for 4318 in drivers/ssb/b43_pci_bridge.c and add a similar value for 4218. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman

Re: BCM4328 latest GIT driver.

2008-03-31 Thread Pavel Roskin
to reverse engineer it. Last time I did it with an Atheros card, and the result exceeded all my expectations - we have functional ath5k now :) -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman

Re: Problems with a bcm4306 (03) and b43/b43legacy

2008-03-26 Thread Pavel Roskin
and compare the results. It's very important that you don't even touch any antenna between measurements or reorient anything. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx

Re: Problems with a bcm4306 (03) and b43/b43legacy

2008-03-25 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 19:49 -0700, Larry Finger wrote: The problem is with authentication. The interface is actively scanning, thus transmit is working. How do you know that? Receiving beacons doesn't require transmission. Just trying to understand your logic. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: No Access to https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

2008-02-26 Thread Pavel Roskin
with the same number. Konqueror, lynx or links should work fine. If everything fails, you can write a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https

Re: Cannot associate (4318 on HP laptop)

2008-02-22 Thread Pavel Roskin
to see you back once the driver handles your setup better. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Cannot associate (4318 on HP laptop)

2008-02-18 Thread Pavel Roskin
to the see AP if the association didn't complete. You can try setting the ESSID again. That should retry the association. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx

Re: Help with bcm4328 revision 5

2008-02-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
(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 }; -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev

Re: Problems b43 driver and bcm4318

2008-02-11 Thread Pavel Roskin
and older. And by the way, Linux 2.6.24.1 would give you are better message about firmware compatibility. And you probably want to go to the latest 2.6.24.x anyway to avoid a major security issue with the kernel. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev

Re: Possible problem on b43 driver's init

2008-02-10 Thread Pavel Roskin
, rather than 2 for open system authentication. It's believed that shared key is even less secure than open system. See e.g. http://www.networkworld.com/research/2002/0909wepprimer.html -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH] b43: Add support for new firmware

2008-01-15 Thread Pavel Roskin
--unsupported to fwcutter. Fwcutter-010 with official support for a new firmware image will be released soon. Do you know that the Subversion repository of fwcutter has no files at all? I mean svn://svn.berlios.de/bcm43xx/trunk Yes, I will try --unsupported, with version 009. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: b43 will need a firmware upgrade soon

2008-01-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
requirements, rather that the users' responsibility to figure out which firmware this particular version of the driver wants. iwlwifi changed the firmware name when a different firmware was needed. And that's a good example, in my opinion. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: b43 will need a firmware upgrade soon

2008-01-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 06 January 2008 22:35:51 Pavel Roskin wrote: Quoting Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: see fwpostfix module parameter Can we please avoid this annoyance this time? Go and complain at Broadcom please. Mind you, there is nothing

Re: b43 will need a firmware upgrade soon

2008-01-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
the people's working configurations, no one will complain. I really want N-PHY and I have hardware to test it on. It's just the word fwprefix that makes me allergic. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de

Re: [PATCH RFT] b43: Fix for broken transmission

2007-12-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
. Scanning finds 5 APs, which is the most I have seen here. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Off-line for now

2007-11-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
and with reverse engineering! In fact, my BCM4311 has higher throughput with the b43 driver than it does when I'm running Windows (Yes, my machine does dual-boot, but that is mainly for testing!). That's impressive indeed. I hope it would be true for 4318, and eventually for 4328. -- Regards, Pavel

Re: mac80211 regression: doesn't associate automatically

2007-11-22 Thread Pavel Roskin
think setting the key should not cause reassociation if there is an association. It can break some schemes where the WEP key changes periodically on both sides. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https

Re: mac80211 regression: doesn't associate automatically

2007-11-22 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 18:18 -0700, Ehud Gavron wrote: 2. dmesg repeats: wlan0: authentication with AP 00:50:bf:b1:da:64 timed out I think it's an unrelated hardware specific issue. mac80211 tried to associate but failed. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: BCM94311MCG

2007-11-08 Thread Pavel Roskin
kernel On the other hand, Fedora updates are so massive, that you may prefer to join the torrent and download Fedora 8. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx

Re: Kubuntu on an Acer

2007-10-28 Thread Pavel Roskin
'(b43|bcm43)' If you are using b43 or b43legacy, you'll need b43-fwcutter, which creates slightly different firmware files. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx

Re: Machine Check on Fedora rawhide kernel.

2007-09-14 Thread Pavel Roskin
treated as 32-bit or 16-bit. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Machine Check on Fedora rawhide kernel.

2007-09-14 Thread Pavel Roskin
passed to leX_to_cpu by value, of course it's a different story. OK. I'll leave my explanation anyway for benefit of other readers. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman

Re: [PATCH, fwcutter] add support for DragonFlyBSD

2007-09-08 Thread Pavel Roskin
, but it's a mater of taste. Also, I would use definitions with arguments, as they are more robust and would indicate use with a wrong number of arguments. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https

Re: Thanks...!

2007-09-07 Thread Pavel Roskin
, such as 802.11g and 802.11b. Basically, support for bcm4306 and bcm4311 are quite good, bcm4318 is getting there, support for anything newer is not even under development. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de

An idea about Kconfig issue

2007-08-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
explain which devices need it. I believe it's at least as good as the hacks that have been suggested so far. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: bcm4301 - bcm43xx-legacy

2007-08-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
will be replaced with its mac80211 port, it should stay bcm43xx to preserve users' .config and fwpostfix settings. If the softmac and the mac80211 drivers are going to coexist at least in one released kernel, then b43old seems to be a good name for the new driver. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: bcm4301 - bcm43xx-legacy

2007-08-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 16:07 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: On Thursday 09 August 2007 16:00:47 Pavel Roskin wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 15:41 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: So, that said, I want to rename all the drivers. My plan was to rename bcm43xx-mac80211 to b43, so you could

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-wireless-dev bcm43xx_mac80211 associates, but Ethernet appears broken

2007-08-08 Thread Pavel Roskin
is used, and we need to find out where it comes from, or there is an algorithm to limit the index to only access valid entries. I hope the reverse engineering team knows that. I wish them good luck. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list

Re: Dell Inspirson 9400 with Dell 1390 wireless card

2007-08-07 Thread Pavel Roskin
at all? As far as I know, you cannot flash ROM. I did not see a bcm4311 driver in the kernel (.22 and .23rc1), do i need to patch to get it? If you mean bcm4301, yes, you need to patch the kernel. But bcm43xx is already in the driver, and it works with v3 firmware. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: Dell Inspirson 9400 with Dell 1390 wireless card

2007-08-07 Thread Pavel Roskin
this, though if you can point me to something you can recommend, that would be great. I'm not aware of any tutorials. bcm43xx-fwcutter can be found here: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4547 -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: Dell Inspirson 9400 with Dell 1390 wireless card

2007-08-07 Thread Pavel Roskin
release sources of the firmware. The best thing Broadcom could do would be to release the detailed specifications, but releasing the firmware under a free-to-copy license would be helpful too, as it would allow using the existing Linux drivers out-of-box. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

[PATCH] Fix handling of failure to create debugfs directory

2007-08-07 Thread Pavel Roskin
This can happen if CONFIG_BCM43XX_MAC80211_DEBUG is enabled, but CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is not. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- .../wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/bcm43xx_debugfs.c|8 ++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-wireless-dev bcm43xx_mac80211 associates, but Ethernet appears broken

2007-08-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
for development. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-wireless-dev bcm43xx_mac80211 associates, but Ethernet appears broken

2007-08-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
love to spend the time figuring it out, I just can't spend that time right now. Well, this reminds me The Mad Hatter's Tea Party with me being Alice :) Anyway, good luck with the driver work! -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-wireless-dev bcm43xx_mac80211 associates, but Ethernet appears broken

2007-08-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: I will switch to quilt based development

2007-08-03 Thread Pavel Roskin
to edit the description afterwards stg refresh -es and stg export -np are my favorite commands. I'm going to post all my ideas to the git list right now. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-wireless-dev bcm43xx_mac80211 associates, but Ethernet appears broken

2007-08-03 Thread Pavel Roskin
the stack? I don't think we want to make users ignore stack traces in the kernel logs, because we may not hear about unknown problems. IMHO there are better places for TODO notes than innocent users' kernel logs. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx

Re: I will switch to quilt based development

2007-08-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
problems with git, it would be great if you report them to the git mailing list. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: I will switch to quilt based development

2007-08-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
set of scripts on top of quilt. And I found out that it doesn't quite fit my needs. OK, it's getting off-topic, but if you need help with stgit, please feel free to ask. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de

Re: bcm4301: A mac80211 driver using V3 firmware

2007-07-20 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 09:44 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 12:43:16AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: Actually, the common practice is that the new driver that doesn't supplant the old driver immediately and for the whole range of hardware gets a new name. Think

Re: bcm4301: A mac80211 driver using V3 firmware

2007-07-20 Thread Pavel Roskin
thinking. As a USER. As a linux advocate and zealot. See above. Users should not care about driver names. If they do, we have a bigger problem. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de

Re: bcm4301: A mac80211 driver using V3 firmware

2007-07-19 Thread Pavel Roskin
alone every user) to take care of the naming conflict. Users don't expect the need to rename firmware, and we shouldn't create a problem for them. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https

Re: dell e1505 bcm43xx driver, bcm4311 chipset?

2007-07-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
version from ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches compiles fine though and has a whole bunch of aliases. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Unauthorized Network card (ERROR 104)

2007-07-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: 2.6.22-rc6, dhcp, promiscuous mode, and other things

2007-06-26 Thread Pavel Roskin
understand you cannot reuse this key after having exposed it in a public forum. On the other hand, WEP is considered generally unsafe these days, so it's more an polite request to leave your network alone than actual security. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin

Re: [bcm43xx-users] 4311 still not receiving

2007-06-22 Thread Pavel Roskin
the algorithm was already shown as open, setting it would probably fix something in softmac. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [bcm43xx-users] 4311 still not receiving

2007-06-22 Thread Pavel Roskin
implementation, and the other cannot setup the hardware (although I need to give bcm43xx_mac80211 another try). Both should be fixable. I just need to get some other stuff off my plate first. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx

Re: [bcm43xx-users] 4311 still not receiving

2007-06-22 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 14:53 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: Pavel Roskin wrote: It's quite frustrating to have two drivers for the hardware, one of which is pretty bad with the 802.11 implementation, and the other cannot setup the hardware (although I need to give bcm43xx_mac80211 another

Re: TX power stuff confusion

2007-06-11 Thread Pavel Roskin
working. It is working with bcm43xx. It was also working with bcm43xx_mac80211 is older kernels, but only with some APs and only with patches limiting the Tx rate. On 6/10/07, Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 19:13 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: I implemented

Re: TX power stuff confusion

2007-06-10 Thread Pavel Roskin
, I'm sure it will work really soon. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP' ieee80211_crypt

Re: Belkin Wireless PCMCIA F5D7010.

2007-05-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
. Can somebody help troubleshoot this problem, say me if this problem is solved by a new version ??? Not me. And not in this list. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman

Re: 2.6.21.1 works with ifconfig; fails with ifup

2007-05-11 Thread Pavel Roskin
, the console is designed to be more survivable than the storage devices in case of a panic, so using the console is preferred. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo

Re: Is mac80211 generally available for use with bcm43xx?

2007-05-03 Thread Pavel Roskin
support to the hardware not supported otherwise. We'll find out very soon, when Linux 2.6.22-rc1 is released. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

PowerPC machine checks confirmed fixed

2007-04-24 Thread Pavel Roskin
association code in mac80211 was another pleasant surprise. Perhaps I'll use bcm43xx_mac80211 by default - it seems quite stable now. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman

Re: [PATCH] ieee80211: Output frequency rather than channel in scan results

2007-04-20 Thread Pavel Roskin
the iwlist output a bit longer, but kernel drivers shouldn't be written to make userspace program generate pretty output. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

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