brcmsmac driver is ghost in 3.3

brcmsmac driver is ghost in 3.3

[Chester]

I spent the better part of my day trying to get my bcm4313 wlan card
to work with the new kernel to little success. I used to use brcmsmac
with the old 3.2 kernel, but it was somehow excluded when I did my
'make silentoldconfig'.

I chose b43 because I couldn't find brcmsmac anywhere in nconfig
anymore. device drivers -> network devices -> wireless lan -> ???..
After fiddling around a while, I looked into my .config and searched
for the symbol, and sure enough, it was there! CONFIG_BRCMSMAC is not
set.

That's strange. I get back on nconfig and do a symbol search and find
that it should be in devices drivers -> network devices -> wireless
lan. I go check a 2nd time and it's right there! Broadcom SoftMac
driver! .. I tried enabling it and saving the config. I peaked at the
.config file again, and the symbol was _gone_ .. (??) I got back on
nconfig and the option was no longer there as well.

Re: brcmsmac driver is ghost in 3.3

[Chester]

And this is when I curse at all the google results that say "blacklist
bcma" ... brcmsmac DEPENDS on bcma /facepalms and goes to sleep..

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Chester
> I spent the better part of my day trying to get my bcm4313 wlan card
> to work with the new kernel to little success. I used to use brcmsmac
> with the old 3.2 kernel, but it was somehow excluded when I did my
> 'make silentoldconfig'.
>
> I chose b43 because I couldn't find brcmsmac anywhere in nconfig
> anymore. device drivers -> network devices -> wireless lan -> ???..
> After fiddling around a while, I looked into my .config and searched
> for the symbol, and sure enough, it was there! CONFIG_BRCMSMAC is not
> set.
>
> That's strange. I get back on nconfig and do a symbol search and find
> that it should be in devices drivers -> network devices -> wireless
> lan. I go check a 2nd time and it's right there! Broadcom SoftMac
> driver! .. I tried enabling it and saving the config. I peaked at the
> .config file again, and the symbol was _gone_ .. (??) I got back on
> nconfig and the option was no longer there as well.

Re: brcmsmac driver is ghost in 3.3

[Arend van Spriel]

On 04/03/2012 07:05 AM, Chester wrote:
> And this is when I curse at all the google results that say "blacklist
> bcma" ... brcmsmac DEPENDS on bcma /facepalms and goes to sleep..

brcmsmac changed basically from a pci device driver to a bcma device 
driver. So before 3.3 it was good to blacklist bcma to avoid it from 
claiming the device away from brcmsmac.

For 3.3, brcmsmac relies on bcma indeed.

Gr. AvS