Michael, On one of my boxes, I have installed two PCI-format BCM43xx cards for testing. One is a BCM4306 Rev. 3, which uses b43. The other is a BCM4303, which uses b43legacy. The output of lspci -nn for these devices is 01:09.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03) 01:0a.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4303 802.11b Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4301] (rev 02) Upon booting, I noticed the following messages in the log: b44: b44.c:v2.0 b44: Invalid MAC address found in EEPROM b44 ssb1:1: Problem fetching invariants of chip, aborting b44: probe of ssb1:1 failed with error -22 As this box does not have a b44 installed, I wondered why this was happening. When I unloaded all the drivers and used modprobe to load ssb, I found that b43, b43legacy and b44 were all loaded. The console output is finger@pam:~> lsmod | grep b4 <== none loaded finger@pam:~> sudo modprobe -v ssb <== load ssb insmod /lib/modules/2.6.37-wl+/kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko The above looks normal, but look at what is now resident! finger@pam:~> lsmod | grep b4 b43legacy 115302 0 b44 28767 0 b43 174321 0 ssb 38157 3 b43legacy,b44,b43 mac80211 266240 2 b43legacy,b43 cfg80211 161930 3 b43legacy,b43,mac80211 Any idea why loading ssb should silently load b43legacy AND b44? Any ideas on where to look? Thanks, 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
