On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:50:13 -0500 William Bourque <william.bour...@polymtl.ca> wrote: [snip] > I was using the B43 (GPL) driver but with the proprietary firmware > extracted from Broadcom crap with bfwcutter. > The proprietary driver provided by Broadcom (what you refer as wl?) > fails to even detect the card. They clearly hate their customers.
I should be very surprised if it doesn't detect your card provided you are using the right driver (and if you haven't compiled and installed a driver called wl.ko then so far as the proprietary driver is concerned you aren't). If you want to take this further, you probably want to go to http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php , install the 32-bit or 64-bit driver according to your system, get the wl.ko driver working and then try warm booting from that and seeing if the b43 driver then works for you - it should. (You will need to copy wl.ko somewhere into your working module directory by hand - it doesn't really matter where - and after doing so run depmod -ae.) Note that this won't compile on 2.6.32-rc* without patching one of the files in the broadcom package, so it would probably be best to install it in a 2.6 31 (or earlier) kernel and warm boot from that. Chris _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
