Bleeding Edge b43 dated since 30 of september no longer working & today does not even compile.

[Riffer <riffer@penny.prima.de>]

Hello!

The problem is described in the topic.

Symptons:

The driver gets loaded and all depending drivers too but the wireless
device does not come up (iwconfig shows nothing, "ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP):"
does not follow in /var/log/messages after modprobing).

Any hints for me? Maybe a new functionality that has to be triggered?

I am using the bleeding drivers on a Compaq 615 Notebook having PCI ID
14e4:4315 (Broadcom) under Ubuntu 9.04 with kernel
2.6.30-02063006-generic AMD64.

Currently I am testing the bleeding edge driver nearly every day because
I am a very curious man :-) and my hope is to one day find the best
(fast and stable) wireless driver I can get for my notebook ;-)

The most stable driver at the moment (for me) is the archive from the
16th of september and as you can read here
http://forums.opensuse.org/2045067-post38.html bleeding edge had already
a failure that stopped working from 17th to 26th of september (for me)
where Larry pointed to a problem with cfg80211 (I am using WPA2).

Another problem is that the archive from today can not be compiled:

/home/riffer/bleeding/compat-wireless-2009-10-06/drivers/net/wireless/ath/main.o
In file included from
/home/riffer/bleeding/compat-wireless-2009-10-06/include/net/mac80211.h:22,
                 from
/home/riffer/bleeding/compat-wireless-2009-10-06/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.h:22,
                 from
/home/riffer/bleeding/compat-wireless-2009-10-06/drivers/net/wireless/ath/main.c:20:
/home/riffer/bleeding/compat-wireless-2009-10-06/include/net/cfg80211.h:1146:
Fehler: »ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN« ist hier nicht deklariert (nicht in einer
Funktion)
(translation:
Error »ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN« is not declared here (not in a function))

best regards

p.s.:
I am only a user and not a developer. If my posting to this mailing-list
is a mistake please tell me!!!
-- 
Riffer