Re: brcm80211 (with bcm4329-chip)

["Franky Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>]

On 11/21/2011 01:34 PM, Thomas Langås wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Thomas Langås
> <thomas.langas@fxitech.com>  wrote:
>> Hmm, doing that, and loading this as a module instead of compiling it into the
>> kernel seemed to work.
>>
>> Is there a reason for this not working when being compiled into the kernel? Is
>> it possible that I need to change the order of  some of the units
>> being initialized
>> in my machine-description / init?\

Usually we compile it as module instead of built-in. But I just tried it 
with built-in and it can intialize and scan. Some issue did happen 
during joining  an AP. So I would suggest use module for your 
development for now.

>
> Ok, so I get the device listed as a wlan0-device, and I see the driver
> being able to communicate
> with the chip, sort of (it can read registers at least), but then I
> start seeing errors like this (from
> the previously attached log):

It's possible that the firmware carshed. Are you using the 
firmware/nvram from Linux repository? You should use the nvram that fits 
your platform.

Franky