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On 03/26/2013 08:48 PM, John Talbut wrote:
> On 26/03/13 19:01, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could you provide the output of "modinfo bcma | grep alias" as Rafał asked.
>>
>> The Debian kernel 3.2 contains some patch removing all PCI IDs expect
>> 14e4:4331 from bcma, if this is still in your kernel that's the problem.
>>
>> If this is the case please try this:
>>
>> echo "14e4 4357" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bcma-pci-bridge/new_id
>>
>> Hauke
>>
> Hi
> 
> modinfo bcma | grep alias
> ERROR: Module bcma not found.

That is because you have it compiled into the kernel.

> echo "14e4 4357" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bcma-pci-bridge/new_id
> bash: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bcma-pci-bridge/new_id: No such file or directory

This could mean you do not have CONFIG_BCMA_HOST_PCI=y in your .config

> Because I am not using modules?
> 
> I found a reference to this patch:
> http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-kernel.git;a=blobdiff;f=linux-3/debian/patches/debian/bcma-Do-not-claim-PCI-device-IDs-also-claimed-by-brc.patch;fp=linux-3/debian/patches/debian/bcma-Do-not-claim-PCI-device-IDs-also-claimed-by-brc.patch;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hp=f8fd94163e10ff9fa3803d6f7aaae7adb3b2c0f5;hb=dfd70ee5283216f7635b367327a9389b10030d87;hpb=76b7ce681bb74b69aea9b155747c47ec86d4e6c5
> 
> This appears to refer to /drivers/bcma/host_pci.c, but the patch does
> not appear to be applied to that file in the Debian 3.8 kernel source,
> there are lines including:
> { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROADCOM, 0x4357) },
> in the 3.8 version of the file.

That patch was from the days that brcmsmac did not use bcma. In 3.8 you
do not need that patch.

Gr. AvS

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