From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:47:36 -0600 Subject: b43 / LCN PHY In-Reply-To: References: <5293353E.7010202@hauke-m.de> <52937DF9.9060204@lwfinger.net> Message-ID: <5293C578.1030906@lwfinger.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On 11/25/2013 01:54 PM, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote: > 2013/11/25 Christopher Horler : >> On 25 November 2013 16:42, Larry Finger wrote: >>> On 11/25/2013 05:32 AM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >>>> >>>> On 11/25/2013 11:33 AM, Christopher Horler wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi All, >>>>> >>>>> I enabled the (broken) LCN PHY support. I understand it's broken, I'm >>>>> not expecting it to work... at least not yet! >>>>> >>>>> Is anyone looking at this? >>>>> >>>>> Are there any obvious major blocking issues (so as to avoid unnecessary >>>>> effort)? >>>>> >>>>> Chris >>>> >>>> >>>> I do not think anybody will work on adding support for the LCN PHY >>>> (BCM4313) to b43 any more, because brcmsmac already supports this device. >>>> >>>> There is some code missing to make this card working in b43, it is not >>>> working at all, you should use brcmsmac. >>> >>> >>> As the only person working on reverse engineering of Broadcom chips, I am >>> certain that anything missing from the LCN specs is unlikely to be added. I >>> agree that you should use brcmsmac and report all problems. >>> >>> Larry >>> >> >> Thanks for the info guys. >> >> okay, will use brcmsmac - I've just noted the same info about LCN PHY >> support is also here: >> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Comparison_of_recent_drivers >> >> I also failed to notice that my system is automatically loading b43, >> ssb, brcmsmac and bcma. Is it normal (or necessary) for both drivers >> to be loaded? >> >> Things still seem to work correctly if I blacklist b43. > > This is weird, even if b43 claims 802.11 device on your card, it > should simply exit after detecting unsupported hardware. That should > let brcmsmac load and work just fine. > > If that doesn't work that way, I think it's something wrong there. In the very first post in this thread, the OP said that he enabled the LCN PHY option. Does that change the behavior? Larry