From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from vs166246.vserver.de ([62.75.166.246]:37637 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751578AbXLLMCr (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:02:47 -0500 From: Michael Buesch To: Randy Cushman Subject: Re: BCM4306 Questions Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:00:59 +0100 Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <475F2DAD.4000708@roadrunner.com> <200712121214.50522.mb@bu3sch.de> <475FCB46.2030209@roadrunner.com> In-Reply-To: <475FCB46.2030209@roadrunner.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <200712121300.59811.mb@bu3sch.de> (sfid-20071212_120250_989684_BF710129) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.