On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/11/2012 02:13 PM, Francis Moreau wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 01/11/2012 12:40 PM, Francis Moreau wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> This has finally been merged and is part of the 3.2 release. >>>> >>>> So now distros don't ship the brcmsmac driver anymore which is >>>> basically the only driver which can handle my card. >>> >>> I am not sure why you come to that conclusion, >> >> I checked on both OpenSuse and Mandriva, and they both have CONFIG_BCMA=m. >> >>> For kernel v3.3 the brcmsmac driver will be using bcma. >> >> Great. >> >> But v3.2... >> > > Given the configuration BCMA=m I agree that brcmsmac is probably not in > the distro in binary form. However, you can probably install the kernel > source package and rebuilt the kernel with BCMA=n and BRCMSMAC=m. Sure but it's not really nice for all users in the same case, specially since we could have done otherwise that would have make happy the poor user I am until the b43 has support for bcma (next release if I understood correctly). Users are unlikely to know/will to recompile his kernel, I think. -- Francis -- 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
