From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Cc: Ubuntu Kernel Team <kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WANTED: someone who knows what exactly that ssb thingy is intended/used for
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 18:30:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907081830.38368.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A548A3C.20800@canonical.com>
On Wednesday 08 July 2009 13:59:56 Stefan Bader wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I somehow wondered why on a Dell Inspiron 1521 the wireless is not cooperating
> by default. The problem turns out to be the ssb module, which is not only a
> dependency to the b44 driver (for the wired network card) but also likes to
> handle the Broadcom 4328 device.
ssb is an internal bus on your b43 and b44 cards. So your setup looks like this:
pci-bus |
|
|>---ssb-
| |>-wireless core (b43 drives this)
| |>-management cores...
|
|>---ssb-
|>-etheret core (b44 drives this)
|>-management cores...
> In the end wireless works well when removing b44, ssb and wl. Then loading wl
> first, followed by b44 (which pulls in ssb).
b43/b44/ssb are not compatible with wl. Uninstall wl.
--
Greetings, Michael.
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