On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 21:00:25 -0800 "Jon Simola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On 10/4/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : After reading over the specs repeatedly, spending many nights studying : their tangled tales and twisted methods, I have to agree with Theo: : : It would take an idiot to try writing a driver for these Broadcom chipsets. : It would take an idiot to try doing it using only a laptop with a minipci card. : : #dmesg | grep ^bcw : bcw0 at pci3 dev 2 function 0 "Broadcom BCM4318" rev 0x02: irq 10, : address 00:14:a5:75:58:df : # ifconfig bcw0 : bcw0: flags=8a43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 : lladdr 00:14:a5:75:58:df : media: IEEE802.11 autoselect : status: no network : ieee80211: nwid "" 0dBm : inet6 fe80::214:a5ff:fe75:58df%bcw0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 : : I have become that idiot. Experienced developers will observe that Damn cool! I did also try to write such a driver but this would be so much work and it would take so much time I currently don't have. It's absolutely great to have such a driver in future (I also own a BCM4318 in my laptop). Does your driver need the firmware? --Steffen -- website: http://cdp.doomed-reality.org hardened linux: http://drlinux.doomed-reality.org
