Return-path: Received: from hiems2.ing.unibs.it ([192.167.23.204]:49982 "EHLO hiems2.ing.unibs.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757975AbZAWTvd (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:51:33 -0500 Cc: Larry Finger , "John W. Linville" , bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, Johannes Berg , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Message-Id: (sfid-20090123_205151_735218_F4ED40CC) From: Francesco Gringoli To: Michael Buesch In-Reply-To: <200901232037.42512.mb@bu3sch.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Subject: Re: integration of opensource firmware with b43 kernel driver Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:51:28 +0100 References: <497A05DC.4040101@lwfinger.net> <01F0FEC9-8ECF-4284-9428-701B976286D6@ing.unibs.it> <200901232037.42512.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Jan 23, 2009, at 8:37 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2009 20:24:47 Francesco Gringoli wrote: >> On Jan 23, 2009, at 7:01 PM, Larry Finger wrote: >> >>> Francesco Gringoli wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> we have been testing the firmware for a week now and it seems >>>> stable. I >>>> personally tested it also on a Linksys WRT54GL and it works both in >>>> station and in AP modes. I collected the feedbacks that some of you >>>> sent >>>> and it seems that the firmware now runs on these board: >>>> >>>> - 4306, 4311, 4318, 4320 >>> >>> As a point of clarification, I think this is restricted to the >>> 4311/1 >>> as the 4311/2 uses ucode13, not ucode5. If you need a tester for an >>> open-source version of the 13 firmware, I'm available. >> Damn... that would be a very hard writing.... We do not have any >> 4311/2 board: at first glance there are more condition registers >> whose >> meaning we do not know. Very different hardware, didn't know. Thank >> you for the feedback. > > Well, if you didn't notice it already, there are a zillion different > flavors > of the broadcom wireless chip out there. So if you buy a random > device, you're almost > guaranteed that you don't have that flavor already. ;) Ehm... I begin to notice now... we were so engaged in understanding the tx state machine that we lost this _huge_ detail(!). They (Broadcom) should have plenty of engineers to design so many different chipsets. Cheers, -FG