[PATCH 2.6.24] b43: Reject new firmware early

2008-01-16 Thread Michael Buesch
We must reject new incompatible firmware early to avoid running into strange transmission failures. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- John, this must _only_ be applied to 2.6.24. 2.6.25 does have actual support for the new firmware. Index:

Re: issues with bcm4306

2008-01-16 Thread Johannes Berg
Hi, 1. Lights stay off on the card, even when it's working and associated. Weird. Especially when the 4318 works. Maybe the SPROM is programmed differently or something. 2. There seems to be some timing issue with a Netgear WGR614 access point (but no others I've tried). If I login with

Re: issues with bcm4306

2008-01-16 Thread Larry Finger
Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, I'm the proud owner of the following Belkin f5d7011 cardbus card: 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03) Subsystem: Belkin F5D7011 54g+ Wireless Network card [1799:7011]

Re: issues with bcm4306

2008-01-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Johannes Berg wrote: 1. Lights stay off on the card, even when it's working and associated. Weird. Especially when the 4318 works. Maybe the SPROM is programmed differently or something. I'm not that familiar yet with the code, is there somewhere I should be

Re: issues with bcm4306

2008-01-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Larry Finger wrote: Please check that modules rfkill and rfkill-input are configured and loaded on your system. In your dmesg output, you are missing lines that look like Registered led device: b43-phy0:tx Registered led device: b43-phy0:rx Registered led device:

Re: issues with bcm4306

2008-01-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Registered led device: b43-phy0:tx Registered led device: b43-phy0:rx Registered led device: b43-phy0:radio I'll check this properly when I'm at the access point in question, Sorry, confused myself here as I rushed. The LEDs fail

Re: issues with bcm4306

2008-01-16 Thread Michael Buesch
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 17:58:26 Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Larry Finger wrote: Please check that modules rfkill and rfkill-input are configured and loaded on your system. In your dmesg output, you are missing lines that look like Registered led device:

Re: issues with bcm4306

2008-01-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Michael Buesch wrote: dmesg | grep led produces no output whatsoever. Can you please post the SPROM data? $ cat $(find /sys -name ssb_sprom) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat $(find /sys -name ssb_sprom)

Re: issues with bcm4306

2008-01-16 Thread Michael Buesch
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 23:00:09 Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Michael Buesch wrote: dmesg | grep led produces no output whatsoever. Can you please post the SPROM data? $ cat $(find /sys -name ssb_sprom) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat $(find /sys