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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Randy Cushman <rcushman_linux@roadrunner.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BCM4306 Questions
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:00:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712121300.59811.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <475FCB46.2030209@roadrunner.com>

On Wednesday 12 December 2007 12:51:34 Randy Cushman wrote:
> I'm not sure I follow.  Are you telling me that driver version 
> 4.150.29.0 does not contain firmware "officially supported" by the Linux 
> Wireless project because no one more knowledgeable than I has gotten 
> around to adding its signature to bcm43xx-fwcutter?

The linux driver does only support the officially supported version.
Any other version might not work at all.

> Are you telling me that I need to temporarily install an older driver in 
> Windows so bcm43xx-fwcutter can have access to an older version of 
> BCMWL5.SYS to work with?  (By my reading of the source code, 
> b43-fwcutter does not recognize /any/ version of BCMWL5.SYS.)

Not at all.
You have to read the webpage. Here's the link again:
http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware
Everything is described there.

-- 
Greetings Michael.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-12 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-12  0:39 BCM4306 Questions Randy Cushman
2007-12-12 11:14 ` Michael Buesch
     [not found]   ` <475FCB46.2030209@roadrunner.com>
2007-12-12 12:00     ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-12-13  0:46       ` Randy Cushman
2007-12-13  1:17         ` Pavel Roskin
2007-12-14  1:43           ` Randy Cushman
2007-12-14  4:21             ` Pavel Roskin

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