From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oncaphillis Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 00:32:40 +0200 Subject: State of the SPROM-less driver In-Reply-To: <4BE4386B.5010302@lwfinger.net> References: <4BE3C677.2060307@snafu.de> <4BE4386B.5010302@lwfinger.net> Message-ID: <4BE5E688.8090107@snafu.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On 05/07/2010 05:57 PM, Larry Finger wrote: > On 05/07/2010 02:51 AM, Oncaphillis wrote: >> Hallo, >> >> Have the patches for the "SPROM-less" bcm43 devices made their way into >> wireless-2.6.git ? And if so -- how do I set it up with the ssb-vsprom >> program ? > > No, those patches have not been incorporated as we are not convinced > that there are any devices without SPROM in the field. With the possible > exception of your system, all such boxes have been shown to have an > SPROM. It is just at a different location. > > Could you please try the two attached patches? Does your system work > with them? They are meant to apply to the wireless-testing tree. > > Larry That looks very promising. The module inserts fine. It gives me a valid MAC and I get a rsync file transfer to a NFS mount with something around 2MB/s. What seems a little bit strange is the fact that iwconfig toggles between 1Mb/s and 36Mb/s when reporting the link speed. For a module with debug options dmesg tells me: b43-pci-bridge 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 b43-pci-bridge 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15) b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 6, Type 5, Revision 1 b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2062, Revision 2 Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode15.fw b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0initvals15.fw b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23) b43-phy0 debug: b2062: Using crystal tab entry 19200 kHz. b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized b43-phy0 debug: 64-bit DMA initialized b43-phy0 debug: QoS enabled b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2 b43-phy0 debug: Using hardware based encryption for keyidx: 0, mac: 00:25:9c:d0:04:fb nice work -- thank you