On 8/17/07, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A new driver for the Broadcom BCM43xx devices has been written that uses > mac80211, rather than > softmac. The newest versions of the Broadcom firmware does not support all > the BCM devices. > Accordingly, a separate driver is being prepared that will use an older > version of the firmware and > support these legacy devices. Unfortunately, there is not a clean separation > based on PCI id's; > however, the revision level of the 802.11 wireless core can be used to > determine which driver should > be used. The scheme works on most systems, but not mine and I need some help > to discover why.
> The 'MODALIAS=ssb:v4243id0812rev0A' line is correct for my device. In fact > issuing a modprobe > "ssb:v4243id0812rev0A" command results in the loading of the module. For some > reason, this does not > happen automatically. > > Initially, I suspected that my version of udev (103-13) was too old; however, > upgrading to version > 114 did not help. My module-init-tools are V 3.2.2 and my distro is the > x86_64 version of openSUSE 10.2. openSUSE 10.2 used a whitelist of buses which trigger module loading. It's in the udev sysconfig. rules and /sbin/hwup. The easiest is probably to add a rule for that bus: ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="ssb", ENV{MODALIAS}=="?*", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $env{MODALIAS}" openSUSE 10.3 will call modprobe directly, the whitelist and the whole hwup logic is removed in the meantime. Kay - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/