On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Henry Ptasinski <henryp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:54:28AM -0700, Thomas Novin wrote: >> Hi >> >> I was going to test the brcm80211 driver to replace the wl driver on >> my gfs laptop to support a BCM4727 chip. >> >> After doing scripts/driver-select, choosing that driver, make, make >> install, make unload and them modprobe brcm80211 I get this: > > So you're using compat-wireless, correct? What version of compat-wireless > and kernel? > > After the "make unload", are cfg80211 and mac80211 actually unloaded? Yes, version 2011-06-15. They were unloaded. >> Jun 17 09:43:41 jennie-laptop kernel: [ 5418.241140] brcm80211: module >> is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been >> warned. >> Jun 17 09:43:41 jennie-laptop kernel: [ 5418.241989] brcm80211: >> disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_free_hw > > You might have the original mac80211 loaded, not the updated one. I see now that mac80211/cfg80211 are the correct version but the driver name actually isn't brcm80211 but brcmsmac? Checking that brcm80211.ko module I found that it was supplied by a kernel package. Looking at what 'make install' installed I found brcmsmac.ko, brcmfmac.ko, brcmutil.ko. I loaded mrcmsmac.ko and I immediately got connected. Rgds//TN -- 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
