From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Simon Holm =?utf-8?q?Th=C3=B8gersen?= <odie@cs.aau.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:04:23 +0100
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On Friday 14 December 2007 13:59:54 Simon Holm Thøgersen wrote:
> > This user did get the following messages in dmesg:
> > 
> > b43err(dev->wl, "Firmware file \"%s\" not found "
> >        "or load failed.\n", path);
> 
> So the question seems to be why b43 needs version 4, when b43legacy and
> bcm43x uses version 3?

That's really a question, right?

Well. linux-2.4 doesn't work with the linux-2.6 modutils.
Windows Vista doesn't work with Windows 98 device drivers.
That leads to this assumption:
b43 doesn't work with version 3 firmware but needs version 4.

Newer drivers supporting newer hardware need newer firmware.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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