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* Re: WANTED: someone who knows what exactly that ssb thingy is intended/used for
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@ 2009-07-08 16:30 ` Michael Buesch
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From: Michael Buesch @ 2009-07-08 16:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stefan Bader; +Cc: Ubuntu Kernel Team, linux-wireless

On Wednesday 08 July 2009 13:59:56 Stefan Bader wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I somehow wondered why on a Dell Inspiron 1521 the wireless is not cooperating 
> by default. The problem turns out to be the ssb module, which is not only a 
> dependency to the b44 driver (for the wired network card) but also likes to 
> handle the Broadcom 4328 device.

ssb is an internal bus on your b43 and b44 cards. So your setup looks like this:

pci-bus |
        |
        |>---ssb-
        |       |>-wireless core (b43 drives this)
        |       |>-management cores...
        |
        |>---ssb-
                |>-etheret core (b44 drives this)
                |>-management cores...

> In the end wireless works well when removing b44, ssb and wl. Then loading wl 
> first, followed by b44 (which pulls in ssb).

b43/b44/ssb are not compatible with wl. Uninstall wl.



-- 
Greetings, Michael.

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