From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Randy Cushman <rcushman_linux@roadrunner.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BCM4306 Questions
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:00:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712121300.59811.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <475FCB46.2030209@roadrunner.com>
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 12:51:34 Randy Cushman wrote:
> I'm not sure I follow. Are you telling me that driver version
> 4.150.29.0 does not contain firmware "officially supported" by the Linux
> Wireless project because no one more knowledgeable than I has gotten
> around to adding its signature to bcm43xx-fwcutter?
The linux driver does only support the officially supported version.
Any other version might not work at all.
> Are you telling me that I need to temporarily install an older driver in
> Windows so bcm43xx-fwcutter can have access to an older version of
> BCMWL5.SYS to work with? (By my reading of the source code,
> b43-fwcutter does not recognize /any/ version of BCMWL5.SYS.)
Not at all.
You have to read the webpage. Here's the link again:
http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware
Everything is described there.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-12 12:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-12 0:39 BCM4306 Questions Randy Cushman
2007-12-12 11:14 ` Michael Buesch
[not found] ` <475FCB46.2030209@roadrunner.com>
2007-12-12 12:00 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-12-13 0:46 ` Randy Cushman
2007-12-13 1:17 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-12-14 1:43 ` Randy Cushman
2007-12-14 4:21 ` Pavel Roskin
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