Re: HP Pavillion Woes

2008-04-20 Thread Larry Finger
On 4/18/08, *Robert Williams* [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All! Been trolling for couple months trying to learn...just when I think I know what to do in what sequence you guys change everything! I've an HP Pavilion dv9310us w/bcm4311 rev 2 mini-pci. temp dual-boot

Re: Success with bcm4311 and rewrite-lo-calibration

2008-04-20 Thread Michael Buesch
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 this gap and finally switch to a

Re: Query about 'ssb_sprom' utility

2008-04-20 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 20 April 2008 07:27:57 Larry Finger wrote: kala mazoo wrote: Greets, I'd originally downloaded ssb_sprom from the git link on the b43 page. Initially the syntax / usage of ssb_sprom totally eluded me, so I went back and searched the mailling list for

Re: HP Pavillion Woes

2008-04-20 Thread Stefanik Gábor
An omission: after step 8, you need to generate an initial ramdisk. Simply issue the command mkinitrd (or mkinitramfs if it doesn't work). On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/18/08, *Robert Williams* [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All! Been trolling for couple

[PATCH] b43: Rewrite LO calibration algorithm

2008-04-20 Thread Michael Buesch
This patch distributes the Local Oscillator calibration bursts over time, so that calibration only happens when it's actually needed. Currently we periodically perform a recalibration of the whole table. The table is huge and this takes lots of time. Additionally only small bits of the table are

[PATCH] b43: Remove some dead code

2008-04-20 Thread Michael Buesch
This patch removes some dead code from the driver. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- John, please queue for 2.6.27 Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/lo.c === ---

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

Re: HP Pavillion Woes

2008-04-20 Thread Larry Finger
Stefanik Gábor wrote: An omission: after step 8, you need to generate an initial ramdisk. Simply issue the command mkinitrd (or mkinitramfs if it doesn't work). Not an omission if you are running openSUSE as he is. It makes initrd automatically; however, for other distros, this step may be

Re: Success with bcm4311 and rewrite-lo-calibration

2008-04-20 Thread Daniel
Hey All, Michael Buesch wrote: Can you also give this a try? http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-testing/20080419-1646/patches/005-b43-calibrate-lo-on-demand.patch I'm getting these errors on a 2.6.25 tree. Any ideas? drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c: In function 'b43_periodic_every120sec':

Re: Success with bcm4311 and rewrite-lo-calibration

2008-04-20 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 20 April 2008 18:04:20 Daniel wrote: Hey All, Michael Buesch wrote: Can you also give this a try? http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-testing/20080419-1646/patches/005-b43-calibrate-lo-on-demand.patch I'm getting these errors on a 2.6.25 tree. Any ideas?

Re: Success with bcm4311 and rewrite-lo-calibration

2008-04-20 Thread Stefanik Gábor
On a 2.6.25 tree... isn't this supposed to be applied on wireless-testing? On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 20 April 2008 18:04:20 Daniel wrote: Hey All, Michael Buesch wrote: Can you also give this a try?

Re: Success with bcm4311 and rewrite-lo-calibration

2008-04-20 Thread Daniel
Michael Buesch wrote: You are not applying the patch correctly. I was applying it such: cd src/linux-2.6.25 cat ../patch | patch -p1 And to my recollection it only said one had already been applied and one applied with an offset. I'm gonna reboot into vanilla-2.6.25 then I will attempt to

Re: Success with bcm4311 and rewrite-lo-calibration

2008-04-20 Thread Daniel
Hello, Michael Buesch wrote: On a 2.6.25 tree... isn't this supposed to be applied on wireless-testing? Of course it is. Ah! Doh! My mistake. I should have thought really shouldn't I! I'll clone a copy a test it out. Cheers, Dan. ___ Bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite LO calibration algorithm

2008-04-20 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: This patch distributes the Local Oscillator calibration bursts over time, so that calibration only happens when it's actually needed. Currently we periodically perform a recalibration of the whole table. The table is huge and this takes lots of time. Additionally only

Re: Query about 'ssb_sprom' utility

2008-04-20 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: On Sunday 20 April 2008 07:27:57 Larry Finger wrote: I'm not sure what happened to my patch; however, I just added that information to the sprom section of the b43 wiki at linux-wireless. Can you resend it? Yes. Larry Index: ssb_sprom/README

Re: Query about 'ssb_sprom' utility

2008-04-20 Thread Stefanik Gábor
Slightly better version, updated to reflect development of ssb-sprom since the patch was made: Index: ssb_sprom/README === --- ssb_sprom.orig/README +++ ssb_sprom/README @@ -13,3 +13,74 @@ Requirements 1)C99

[PATCH V2] ssb-sprom: Update README

2008-04-20 Thread Larry Finger
Michael, Below is yet another revision to the README for ssb-sprom. This version uses the --subv switch to replace the vendor ID and gets rid of the back ticks in both places. Larry Index: ssb_sprom/README === ---