Greetings;
When attempting to use the bcm43xx driver for the broadcom 4318 chip in my
lappies radio, I am getting this error message shortly after I do
a "modprobe bcm43xx":
No support for versions > 128, and the led indicating the radio is on goes
off.
I do not get this message when using the older ndiswrapper, but it also
worked for a few weeks this spring.
I just found a patch in one of the messages of the berlios.de's bcm43xx
message archive:
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
+++ wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
@@ -2405,9 +2405,10 @@ static int bcm43xx_chip_init(struct bcm4
BCM43xx_UCODE_TIME) & 0x1f);
if ( value16 > 0x128 ) {
- dprintk(KERN_ERR PFX
- "Firmware: no support for microcode rev > 0x128\n");
- err = -1;
+ printk(KERN_ERR PFX
+ "Firmware: no support for microcode extracted "
+ "from version 4.x binary drivers.\n");
+ err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
goto err_release_fw;
}
So apparently the real message is that bcm43xx-fwcutter didn't find the
right stuff, or that bcm43xx cannot find it in /lib/firmware, while its
possible that ndiswrapper is finding it. But I still cannot connect in
any event.
Whats the next step here folks?, theres so darned many trees here I can't
see the forest.
I've printed about 40 pages of stuff about this, but so far there has been
no magic 'duh' moment.
--
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