W dniu 20 czerwca 2011 02:07 użytkownik Larry Finger <[email protected]> napisał: > On 06/19/2011 06:17 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> >> I'm getting uncomfortable with recent changes made to b43 wiki page >> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 >> >> First we got Stuart who felt it's necessary to explain that "partially >> supported" on b43's page means it's "partially supported by b43". It >> was so obvious to me I just reverted that change. He also linked to >> some discussion with random BCM4322 issue on 2.6.38 kernel. Well, >> support in 2.6.38 was highly experimental, it got many more issues, I >> don't think it makes any sense to display all of them. 2.6.39 is >> suggested, that's all. >> >> Today we got David Wang's modification. He wrote instruction how to >> check if firmware was installed. I've no idea what's unclear with >> messages like: >> "Cannot open input file >> broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3/driver/wl_apsta/wl_prebuilt.o" >> "failed to create output directory: Permission denied" >> ? >> >> Plus I found the following checks quite silly: >> ls -1 "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR"| grep b43| wc -1 >> ls -1 "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR"/b43| wc -l >> "An output of>5 is good" >> >> It also adds twice info about LP-PHY which is already duplicated: >>> >>> Those of you who has bcm4315 (bcm4312 LP-PHY) and bcm4321 chipset, you >>> will need to make sure you enable PIO mode as DMA mode does not work with >>> your chipset. So instead of following the guide above you will need to do a >>> few more extra steps: >> >> (We inform about LP-PHY and DMA problems in known issues). >> >> Additionally it provides not working right-away instruction about >> switching to pio: >>> >>> modprobe -r b43 >>> modprobe b43 pio=1 >>> echo "options b43 pio=1">> /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf >> >> >> Is it just me, or are that changes quite silly? >> >> Does anyone have contact to David Wang? He does not have his page on wiki. > > As my son in law keeps reminding me, "You cannot fix stupid." I'm always > assuming he is not referring to me! :) > > Along a similar vein, the helpers on the openSUSE forums are consistently > recommending that Broadcom users install wl and blacklist ssb and b43. I > have given up trying to overcome that issue. I feel that if people fall for > such bad info, then they deserve to have their wireless fail every time that > the kernel is updated, and that kernel developers will ignore the oops > reports coming from their tainted kernels.
Thanks for answer. > You know as much or more than anyone about b43. Please make any cleanups > that you want on the wiki. Thanks, however I believe the worst thing is to assume "I do sth = I set the rules" and stop listening to the others. That's why I preferred to ask for opinion. -- Rafał _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
