On Thursday 05 June 2008 04:46:28 Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 17:16 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > Release early, release often. > > Here's the first testing release of the b43 opensource firmware. > > http://bu3sch.de/misc/b43-openfw-20080604.tar.bz2 > > > > Currently only the receive path is partially implemented. So that > > means we can only run it in monitor mode for now. This firmware is > > able to receive packets and push them without special handling (like > > decrypting) to the driver. > > There are lots of bugs, of course. Sometimes the PLCP header is corrupted. > > That will result in a kernel driver warning in xmit.c. > > > > This firmware does _only_ work on wireless core revisions 5, 6, 7, 8 or 10. > > That's great news! Having distributable firmware would simplify > installation, placing b43 to the same league as Intel devices. But > having free firmware would be unique to Broadcom card and extremely > attractive for research in wireless communications and development of > novel devices using non-standard protocol extensions. > > As a short term goal, maybe bcm4328 could be dumbed down to work with > b43? > > I've tried it with bcm4318 first, and it hung hard on module load. Even > Alt-SysRq would not work. It turns out it was revision 9 missing in > your list. > > Then I tries a bcm4306 device with rev 5 core. The module loaded. I > brought it up in managed mode first. Scanning didn't work. I brought > the device down and set monitor mode. But the system hung when I tried > to bring the interface back up. There shouldn't be a reason for a freeze. It might crash, yes, but it always prints out useful messages first for me. -- Greetings Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
