On 03/29/2010 03:55 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:48:22PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 03:14:07PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >> >>> Could you please apply my little test patch and send me the contents of the >>> chipcommon status register in your netbook? >> >> Mine looks like yours, "chip_id 0x4312, status 0x12"... > > I guess I misread the earlier messages -- mine looks like René's, not yours. Bummer. To answer your previous message, the Broadcom driver is very clear that 0x2 set in the chipcommon status for a BCM4312 means no SPROM; however, René's device contradicts that conclusion. There must be some other test that I have missed. René: For your information, this test was added because attempting to read the SPROM in John's computer locks the processor - he has to power off. I did reverse engineering on the Broadcom driver and found their workaround when no SPROM is present. The patch in question matches their code, and allows John's machine to continue. There is a second, pending patch that works with some udev rules to create a virtual SPROM image and assign a unique MAC address. With this patch applied, your machine would still work. The only change is that you would be assigned a random MAC address. I will likely need some additional test prints to see if I can find a test that recognizes that René's machine has an SPROMs and that John's does not. Larry -- 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
