On 9/23/07, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mansour wrote: > > I am facing the same issue. > > > > dmesg | grep bcm > > bcm43xx driver > > bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4311, rev 0x2 > > bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4 > > bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x13, vendor 0x4243 > > bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243 > > bcm43xx: Unsupported 80211 core revision 13 > > bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x817, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243 > > bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x820, rev 0x5, vendor 0x4243 > > bcm43xx: PHY connected > > bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Analog: 4, Type 2, Revision 9 > > bcm43xx: Invalid PHY Revision 9 > > bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2) > > bcm43xx: Radio turned off > > bcm43xx: Radio turned off > > bcm43xx: PHY connected > > bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load > > failed. > > bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2) > > bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 > > bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load > > failed. > > bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2) > > > > I have used b43 to extract the firmware. Now I don't know what to do > > next. My card works fine with Vista. > > The new b43 fw-cutter works only with the binaries that are supplied by > > openwrt. I tried to use bcmwl6.sys that came with the pre installed > > vista, but it didn't work. I am using kernel 2.6.22.2 > > > > I really need an advice about how to get this to work, as it's really > > frustrating. > > To extract firmware for bcm43xx, you need a V3 driver and > bcm43xx-fwcutter. > > To extract firmware for b43legacy, you need b43-fwcutter and the V3 driver > from > http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o. > > To extract firmware for b43, you need b43-fwcutter and the V4 driver from > http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2. > > Until the reverse engineers get a chance to look at decompiled code for > the rev 9 PHYs, write the > specs, and the code developers can turn those specs into code, it is > unlikely that your device will > work. As I stated earlier on this mailing list, your device will never > work with bcm43xx. If you > were to get the source code from the wireless-dev git tree, and make a > necessary modification, there > is only a slight chance that it might work. Without one to test, there > isn't much we can do. > > There are 6 DW1390 cards for sale on E-Bay with "Buy-it-now" prices up to > $30 + shipping. One must > be careful that it is a rev 1 and not a rev 2. > > Larry > > Pardon my ignorance please, but how would one know what rev # the card is? The ones I see on ebay seem to show a fairly close view of the label, but I'm not sure what I,m looking for. For example, is REV A02 = (rev 02)? The only way I knew what rev # mine was, was the lspci command, I haven't looked at my card yet, as I was checking ndiswrapper possibilities in the interim.
Gary
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