On Friday, 14 of December 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Friday 14 December 2007 13:59:54 Simon Holm Thøgersen wrote: > > > This user did get the following messages in dmesg: > > > > > > b43err(dev->wl, "Firmware file \"%s\" not found " > > > "or load failed.\n", path); > > > > So the question seems to be why b43 needs version 4, when b43legacy and > > bcm43x uses version 3? > > That's really a question, right? > > Well. linux-2.4 doesn't work with the linux-2.6 modutils. > Windows Vista doesn't work with Windows 98 device drivers. > That leads to this assumption: > b43 doesn't work with version 3 firmware but needs version 4. > > Newer drivers supporting newer hardware need newer firmware.
Actually, can you explain why, from the technical point of view, the version 4 firware is better than version 3, please? Rafael -- 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/