Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422900AbXBAOpJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:45:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422906AbXBAOpI (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:45:08 -0500 Received: from caffeine.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:47694 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422900AbXBAOpH (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:45:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:45:06 -0500 To: Erik Mouw Cc: Jeff Garzik , Roland Dreier , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! Message-ID: <20070201144506.GD7582@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20070130191020.GF20642@kroah.com> <45BFA087.6020905@garzik.org> <20070130214759.GA12477@kroah.com> <45BFC2CF.8010603@garzik.org> <20070130222344.GF7584@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070201135903.GE29212@harddisk-recovery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070201135903.GE29212@harddisk-recovery.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1814 Lines: 39 On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:59:03PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > I can't remember that kind of corruption ever being reported to the > bcm43xx-dev mailing list. Well I assumed it messed up the eeprom settings, since we had to go into the advanced driver settings and change it from 802.11b only back to auto mode and I would think those settings are stored in the eeprom if booting a 2.6.18 kernel and loading the bcm43xx driver can cause it to stop working, then it has to be an eeprom setting. Actually I suppose the other posibility is that you simply have to power cycle before booting windows after linux to avoid any left over settings in the chip from being a problem. That may be what I did. Given I couldn't get the card to connect using the bcm43xx driver anyhow, I didn't spend too much time trying (I am fairly sure I set the AP to 802.11g only though which may have been a problem). > You could use a CardBus or USB card. I just don't like things sticking out that are breakable. > So are the bcm43xx maintainers. Excellent. Is the bcm43xx planning to get 802.11g mode working at some point? Is broadcom ever going to help out with any specs for their hardware or do they still mistakenly believe that end users are not their customers? Given the behaviour of broadcom over the years I know I don't intend to buy anything with a broadcom chip in it again, which means broadcom's behaviour directly means they will get less sales to the laptop makers, since some people will actively avoid anything with broadcom's hardware in it. :) -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/