* Re: WANTED: someone who knows what exactly that ssb thingy is intended/used for
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@ 2009-07-08 16:30 ` Michael Buesch
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From: Michael Buesch @ 2009-07-08 16:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Bader; +Cc: Ubuntu Kernel Team, linux-wireless
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.
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Greetings, Michael.
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