From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Anslow Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:29:28 +0100 Subject: 4331 support In-Reply-To: <4E56D231.5080306@lwfinger.net> References: <20110825233820.14231gncpwmacjdw@jamesanslow.net> <4E56D231.5080306@lwfinger.net> Message-ID: <4E57BBD8.3020002@jamesanslow.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org Hello all, I followed the instructions as forwarded in this mail re Kconfig and dma.h. However, when I try to modprobe my device is detected but I get: 69.767145] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4331 WLAN found (core revision 29) [ 69.767602] b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 9, Type 7, Revision 1) [ 69.767611] b43: probe of bcma0:0 failed with error -95 Can anyone offer assistance? On 25/08/11 23:52, Larry Finger wrote: > On 08/25/2011 05:38 PM, james at jamesanslow.net wrote: >> Can anyone provide me with an update as to the current status of BCM >> 4331 >> support? Is support going to be coming eventually? Is anyone working >> on it? > > If you pull the wireless-testing git tree, it is working, perhaps with > minor changes. See a recent mail message: > > ======================================== > Awesome guys, > thanks for the pointers, it worked! (i m sending this email using the > b43 driver!) > > I used the wireless-next git, and then additionally applied the "b43: > HT-PHY: allow writing longer tables with a single call" patch. > (and the ones in Rafal's last mail) > > Thanks for the great support and fast answers! > Congratulations on hacking a driver like this together, I am impressed! > > Best regards, > Maxime > > 2011/8/22 Rafa? Mi?ecki > > Hi Maxime, > > 2011/8/22 Maxime Vincent : > > I'm sorry if this is a noobish question, or asking this kind of > questions is > > not done. > > I'm not really familiar with dev mailing lists. > > I'm new to kernel development, not new to linux. > > > > I was wondering what the status of support for the 4331 wifi > chipset was? > > As I can see there's already quite some code for the 4331 > chipset, but I > > can't really make up from that if it's supposed to work or not, > or maybe > > partially? > > > > I have compiled latest linux-next kernel including the b43 > driver, extracted > > firmware, but I can't seem to see an interface registering. > > Only thing I can see in dmesg: > > Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS, Firmware-ID: FW13 ] > > I'm going to clean HT-PHY (BCM4331) support in about a week, as David > wrote, it should be quite stable. > > Most of the patches are already in wireless-next, I just need to test > that tree, see if everything was sent&applied correctly and drop > BROKEN from B43_PHY_HT. > > If you're "brave" enough, you can: > 1) Edit Kconfig and drop BROKEN from B43_PHY_HT > 2) Edit dma.h and define B43_DMA_RINGMEMSIZE to "2 * PAGE_SIZE" > (or just wait a week). > =============================================== > > > Larry -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 900 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: