John Linville ran an MMIO dump on his Netbook while loading the wl driver. From the output, it was clear that his device does indeed have an SPROM, but it is in a different location than previous devices we have encountered. With this information, it was not difficult to find the test for this situation in the Broadcom code. The revised specs for this condition are in the first paragraph of http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/SPROM. In a nutshell, the SPROM is at offset 0x1000 for chipcommon revisions < 31, and at 0x0800 for revisions >= 31. I have also discovered what was wrong with the specs that described what devices do not have an SPROM. The previous version only covers those devices that are on a PCMCIA bus. The new version of those specs are at http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/802.11/IsSpromAvailable. As might be expected, the chipcommon revision is again important for PCI devices. My workaround for missing SPROM data remains viable, and I plan to resubmit it as soon as the revised detection routine is ready. Does that sound reasonable, or should I wait until such a device is found? 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
