On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:31 PM, julie Sullivan <kernelmail.jms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi list, > > Celejar (see message copied below) has been having problems with his > Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Ethernet card not working on very recent kernels - > it seems to be sporadically registered either as the correct device or > as a completely different Broadcom device on a different subsystem and > IRQ. > He has emailed various mailing lists and, more recently, linux-kernel, > netdev, devel.linuxdriverproject and the b44 driver maintainer but so > far without any response. > I would need to do a _lot_ of swotting up on device registration > semantics to even know where to start looking, so can anyone here > help? Any ideas? > NOTE: _please do_ cc him as I don't think he is subscribed to kernelnewbies. > > Cheers > Julie I don't know that specific hardware, but maybe this can help === Broadcom is a mess. This might help, but its a little older http://old-en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_Adapters_%28Wireless%29/Broadcom_BCM43xx There are at least 4 totally different drivers that support some broadcom hardware. - The new native kernel driver (as of 2.6.37 I think) - The old b43 / b44 drivers (GPL) - The STA driver (not GPL) - The NDISWRAPPER approach (uses the windows driver via linux, I think) I've got one laptop that works with b43, but not with STA. And one that works with STA, but not b43. I haven't used the new kernel driver at all yet, nor have I had to fall all the way back to NDISWRAPPER. Good Luck Greg _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
