From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from bu3sch.de ([62.75.166.246]:55316 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753520AbZGHQal (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:30:41 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Stefan Bader Subject: Re: WANTED: someone who knows what exactly that ssb thingy is intended/used for Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 18:30:38 +0200 Cc: Ubuntu Kernel Team , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <4A548A3C.20800@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <4A548A3C.20800@canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <200907081830.38368.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.