Hi there
I note that the new kernels for 5.3 will have the bcm43xx work from 2.6.25 backported into them.
Does this mean that the driver name will change to b43 (as i thought that bcm43xx was deprecated)? If not then will we need to change the firmware by cutting from 4.150.10.5 and will bcm43xx-fwcutter work for this?
thanks
mike
Michael Simpson wrote:
Does this mean that the driver name will change to b43 (as i thought that bcm43xx was deprecated)? If not then will we need to change the firmware by cutting from 4.150.10.5 and will bcm43xx-fwcutter work for this?
5.3 isnt out yet, and the only people who can answer that question are upstream, so you can either ask them - or hang tight for another 2 odd months
On 12/22/08, Karanbir Singh kbsingh@centos.org wrote:
Michael Simpson wrote:
Does this mean that the driver name will change to b43 (as i thought that bcm43xx was deprecated)? If not then will we need to change the firmware by cutting from 4.150.10.5 and will bcm43xx-fwcutter work for this?
5.3 isnt out yet, and the only people who can answer that question are upstream, so you can either ask them - or hang tight for another 2 odd months
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ta, will do
mike
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Michael Simpson wrote:
On 12/22/08, Karanbir Singh kbsingh@centos.org wrote:
Michael Simpson wrote:
Does this mean that the driver name will change to b43 (as i thought that bcm43xx was deprecated)? If not then will we need to change the firmware by cutting from 4.150.10.5 and will bcm43xx-fwcutter work for this?
5.3 isnt out yet, and the only people who can answer that question are upstream, so you can either ask them - or hang tight for another 2 odd months
ta, will do
Take a look at the upstream kernels, which are close to what is (or will be) in RHEL 5.3:
http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/
I am using 2.6.18-128.el5 and the kernel module is called bcm43xx.ko, however there is no driver version information inside the module. Maybe this is useful:
---- [root@moria root]# modinfo bcm43xx filename: /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx.ko license: GPL author: Michael Buesch author: Stefano Brivio author: Martin Langer description: Broadcom BCM43xx wireless driver srcversion: 419F33DA6A6B5DB8D3C9F1E alias: pci:v000014E4d00004325sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v000014E4d00004324sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v000014E4d00004320sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v000014E4d00004319sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v000014E4d00004318sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v000014E4d00004312sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v000014E4d00004311sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v000014E4d00004307sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v000014E4d00004301sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: ieee80211,ieee80211softmac vermagic: 2.6.18-128.el5 SMP mod_unload gcc-4.1 parm: pio:enable(1) / disable(0) PIO mode (int) parm: bad_frames_preempt:enable(1) / disable(0) Bad Frames Preemption (int) parm: short_retry:Short-Retry-Limit (0 - 15) (int) parm: long_retry:Long-Retry-Limit (0 - 15) (int) parm: locale:int parm: country:Select LocaleCode 0-11 (For travelers) parm: noleds:Turn off all LED activity (int) parm: fwpostfix:Postfix for .fw files. Useful for using multiple firmware image versions. (string) module_sig: 883f35049492f585cdc734e64d24fa1127e940a0a84a8b66cad23f785322156554a5d5df64f41b830a095d1cb6a69e1e39d38fe043242a6f9daefe27d ----
Kind regards,
Dag Wieers wrote:
Take a look at the upstream kernels, which are close to what is (or will be) in RHEL 5.3: http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/
The only caveat being that the test kernels on people.r.c are notorious for carrying patches that are never released into the distro. But apart from that those kernels might be a good place to start.
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