State of the SPROM-less driver

State of the SPROM-less driver

[Oncaphillis]

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 ?

Thank you -- Sebastian

State of the SPROM-less driver

[Larry Finger]

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
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State of the SPROM-less driver

[Oncaphillis]

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