Return-path: Received: from mfe1.polimi.it ([131.175.12.23]:41344 "EHLO polimi.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751451AbYAOTWs (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:22:48 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:15:38 +0100 From: Stefano Brivio To: Pavel Roskin Cc: Michael Buesch , John Linville , bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: Add support for new firmware Message-ID: <20080115201538.5e4347f9@morte> (sfid-20080115_192251_865184_44AC7D2E) In-Reply-To: <1200421662.17542.32.camel@dv> References: <200801131420.52995.mb@bu3sch.de> <1200421662.17542.32.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:27:42 -0500 Pavel Roskin wrote: > I have finally found some time and hardware to test it, but the tarball > is overwhelming at its 186M. And the worst thing, the server > disconnected after 30M and appears to be down right now. P.S. It's up, > ETA is 48 minutes. > > There were two files there. I hope either is fine. I'm trying to > download WRT150NV11_v1.51.3_ETSI.tgz > > Cannot we petition Linksys to put wl_ap.o outside the tarball? Or maybe > Broadcom could do it? Good luck. ;) The only long-term lasting solution I see is to put more effort on an open firmware. The instruction set has been figured out, we just lack people and time there. > Do you know that the Subversion repository of fwcutter has no files at > all? I mean svn://svn.berlios.de/bcm43xx/trunk > > Yes, I will try --unsupported, with version 009. fwcutter development now happens here: http://bu3sch.de/gitweb?p=b43-tools.git;a=summary Maybe we should add this along with git URLs on linuxwireless.org. -- Ciao Stefano