From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "John H." <mistamaila@gmail.com>
Cc: Broadcom Linux <bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Upgrade to f7 breaks bcm43xx module
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:18:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4660630E.7040701@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b9417770706011111u20f32192s960961dc8693f00e@mail.gmail.com>
John H. wrote:
> bcm43xx mac80211:
> YOUR FIRMWARE IS TOO OLD. Firmware from binary drivers older than
> version 4.x is unsupported. You must upgrade your firmware files.
>
> I get that now with f7 and 2.6.21 and didn't with fc6 2.6.20.
>
> However, I read that the error is not what it sounds like. What is
> the solution?
The error is _EXACTLY_ what it sounds like. With fc6, you were using bcm43xx-softmac, which uses V3
firmware. With fc7, you switched to bcm43xx-mac80211, which needs V4 firmware - just what the error
message said. The solution is to download a V4 driver and create the appropriate firmware.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-01 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-01 18:11 Upgrade to f7 breaks bcm43xx module John H.
2007-06-01 18:18 ` John W. Linville
2007-06-01 18:18 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2007-06-01 18:23 ` John H.
2007-06-01 18:37 ` John H.
2007-06-01 18:55 ` John H.
2007-06-01 19:24 ` Larry Finger
2007-06-01 18:58 ` Larry Finger
2007-06-01 21:36 ` Michael Buesch
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