On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 00:54 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Christopher A. Williams <chrisw <at> cawllc.com> writes: > > kernel: bcm43xx: Firmware: no support for microcode extracted from > > version 4.x binary drivers. > > The softmac version of the bcm43xx driver wants a firmware revision <=3.x, the > mac80211 (Devicescape 802.11 stack) version of the driver wants a firmware > revision 4.x. (It's not directly related to the underlying 802.11 stack, it's > just that the mac80211 version is the development version of the driver, the > softmac version is the stable one.) Apparently, you previously got the mac80211 > version and now get the softmac version of the driver for some reason. > > Unfortunately, I can't answer the question you'll probably have next, which is > why you suddenly got a different version of the driver as the default. I know > the F7 Rawhide kernels are shipping both 802.11 stacks, and bcm43xx is one of > the drivers present in both, but I don't know how the kernel decides which of > the drivers to load. That's probably a question for the Fedora kernel > maintainers. Thanks! That was definitely it. I switched to an older 3.x version of the firmware and connected straight away. Guess we'll have to wait for the kernel developers as to why this changed again. Cheers, Chris -- Christopher A. Williams <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list