Return-path: Received: from flpi195.sbcis.sbc.com ([207.115.20.197]:44335 "EHLO flpi195.prodigy.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751911AbXKUA0e (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:26:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:25:04 -0800 (PST) From: Asheesh Laroia To: Andreas Schwab cc: Michael Buesch , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, Stefano Brivio , Larry Finger Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] remove bcm43xx In-Reply-To: Message-ID: (sfid-20071121_002636_945137_A6B0A170) References: <20071119202121.6ad3fa70@morte> <200711201507.46998.mb@bu3sch.de> <200711201520.05718.mb@bu3sch.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Michael Buesch writes: > >> On Tuesday 20 November 2007 15:11:07 Andreas Schwab wrote: >>> Michael Buesch writes: >>> >>>> On Monday 19 November 2007 23:36:44 Andreas Schwab wrote: >>>>> b43 still does not work at all on ppc. >>>> >>>> This is absolutely _wrong_. >>> >>> Of course it is wrong, but apparently the only way to get attention to a >>> blocker bug. >> >> I didn't hear about your bug before. >> >> Are you using latest driver from wireless-2.6 and the officially >> supported firmware version from >> http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 > > I have now downgraded the firmware (I was foolishly assuming that all > firmware versions recognized by b43-fwcutter are equally supported), and > the error does not occur any more. Thanks for your help. It sounds like b43-fwcutter will extract firmware that is not maximally compatible with the b43 driver. If that's right, then it would be way nice to print a notice to the user that he's extracting a less-than-perfectly-supported firmware. Yes, I'm willing to write this patch if people will point me to a table of which firmware is maximally-supported. (If someone else writes it instead, I'd prefer that, but if no one will then I can.) I haven't actually been using a bcm43xx chip for wireless for about a year, but I've been enjoying the list mail so I stayed on and read mails casually. It sounds like there's one specific firmware that's recommended; if so, then printing "Congratulations, you're using the best-supported firmware as of ${RELEASE_DATE_OF_THIS_FWCUTTER}" in that case would be easy, as well as "Warning! You're not using the best-supported firmware as of ${RELEASE_DATE_OF_THIS_FWCUTTER}". If it already does that now, then sorry for the noise! -- Asheesh. -- Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"