Return-path: Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.170]:59379 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753814AbZEUCNF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 May 2009 22:13:05 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 26so263980wfd.4 for ; Wed, 20 May 2009 19:13:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <69e28c910905200137o4e501ed2r65b5b79a1b5a087e@mail.gmail.com> References: <69e28c910905200137o4e501ed2r65b5b79a1b5a087e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:13:05 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: b43 lp-phy status From: Dave Young To: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Stefanik?= Cc: Michael Buesch , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2009/5/20 Gábor Stefanik : > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Dave Young wrote: >> Hi, michael >> >> What's the status of b43 for lp-phy? Is is possible to use it with >> basic functionality now? >> >> I have such wireless dev in my dell 5400 laptop. >> >> Now I just use the broadcom hybrid driver which can not pass building >> in latest kernel by default. I make some change to it's wl_linux.c to >> make it compiled. Although the wl.ko works, it has some nasty bug >> which will be triggered after modprobe the module several times. >> >> Could you tell what I can do for the b43 lpy? ie. some testing? > > Unfortunately no substantial code additions related to LP have been > checked in so far - the reverse engineering is complete, but Michael > is the only person working on converting the specs to code, and he's > too busy to work on LP. > > (Should someone send me a Dell 1395, I could probably start working on > it, but I'm busy with zd1211rw & iwlagn right now.) Thanks for your response. Then are there some guideline to do such coding? > >> >> -- >> Regards >> dave >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > > > > -- > Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) > -- Regards dave