> compat-wireless is a backport of the current drivers, so you should be using > the firmware for Linux 2.6.25 and newer. OK, that's helpful, thanks. I removed the existing firmware and reinstalled the version for 2.6.25, as follows: export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware" wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver sudo ../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta_mimo.o (This is described on http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43) Then: cd compat-wireless-2008-06-15 make make install sudo make install sudo make load dmesg Now, some progress: I no longer see the warning about having old firmware. > As fast as I know, the master mode support in mac80211 has not been merged > yet into the wireless-testing branch, so I don't think it's present in > compat-wireless. There are some unofficial patches for that, but you never > mentioned them. Did any document promised you master mode support if you > use compat-wireless? Yes, this page indicates that AP is supported for the Broadcom chips: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers The linuxwireless.org site isn't responding for me now either, but you can always get the pages from Google's cache. I didn't read anything about the patches before, and indeed the drivers page doesn't mention them, but now I've been digging through the Linux wireless list archive and I find a message from Dan Williams (see: "Does mac80211 support ap mode" thread) which mentions that mac80211 does support it, and that "While it's still under pretty heavy development, it all should be fairly usable." The thread mentions patches but it's not clear how to use them. What steps should I take to apply the patches? Thanks, M -- 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
