Re: brcmsmac in kernel driver on a Samsung NC110

[John Talbut <jt@dpets.co.uk>]

On 26/03/13 12:01, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 03/26/2013 12:43 PM, John Talbut wrote:
>> On 26/03/13 11:29, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>>> On 03/26/2013 12:13 PM, John Talbut wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 26/03/13 10:53, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>>>>> On 03/26/2013 11:34 AM, John Talbut wrote:
>>>>>> Kernel log attached.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Now this is weird. I do not see any BCMA log messages. Can you give
>>>>> output of following command:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ lspci -n -s 1:0.0
>>>>
>>>> 01:00.0 0280: 14e4:4357 (rev 01)
>>>
>>> Ok, no problem there.
>>>
>>> digging further in sysfs. Can you execute the following commands:
>>>
>>> if it exists:
>>> $ ls /sys/bus/bcma
>>> $ ls /sys/bus/bcma/devices
>>> $ ls /sys/bus/bcma/drivers
>>>
>>> if it exists also following:
>>> $ ls -l /sys/bus/bcma/drivers/brcmsmac
>>
>> root@johnwtnc110:/usr/src/linux-source-3.8# ls /sys/bus/bcma
>> devices  drivers  drivers_autoprobe  drivers_probe  uevent
>> root@johnwtnc110:/usr/src/linux-source-3.8# ls /sys/bus/bcma/devices
> 
> The fact that there are no devices detected under bcma is suspicious.
> Adding bcma developer to the list. Maybe he knows about issues when
> having bcma compiled in kernel image.
> 
> Regards,
> Arend

I have just noticed that with a previous version of the kernel which I
had compiled with
# CONFIG_BCMA is not set

there are references to brcmsmac in the kernel log.  It complains about
failing to find the firmware, though.

Regards
John