I thought that a number of routers could not use b43 and brcmsmac and had to use the actual broadcom-wl driver more or less as provided by broadcom. My email was only in reference the ones that run wl.ko like mine does(which is what it is using right now although on shibbytomato). In the wiki it is saying there are compatibility issues with the broadcom-wl drivers with a number of routers and it appeared to me that only one version of broadcom-wl(without patches) was actually available to be compiled for OpenWRT which was the reason for many problems. I was under the impression that the wl_ap.o wl_apsta.o and wl_sta.o binary's were not really kernel specific and only wl.ko is kernel specific, is that correct?
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Hauke Mehrtens <ha...@hauke-m.de> wrote: > On 09/15/2013 05:40 PM, James Hilliard wrote: > > From what I'm seeing everyone is patching broadcom-wl around > > this(http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2) > > driver for the Netgear WNDR4500 for pretty much everything broadcom-wl > > related. > > That is wrong! > > broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 is just used to extract the ucode and use > that ucode with b43 and brcmsmac. > > The proprietary Broadcom driver OpenWrt uses are these, the actual file > depends on the endianes. > http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3_mips.tar.bz2 > http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3_mipsel.tar.bz2 > > To verify this see package/kernel/broadcom-wl/Makefile > > Like everyone already told you in IRC this driver is *not* based on the > GPL release by some vendor, but this is a version specially modified for > OpenWrt by someone with access to the source code of the proprietary > wifi driver. > > Most of the patches we apply on top of this driver are there to make the > open source part compile with more recent kernel versions, see > package/kernel/broadcom-wl/patches/ > > > What's the point of making a bunch of patches for this file > > when you could just use one of the many other broadcom-wl drivers that > > are actually designed for the target device already. > > The driver designed for this device do not work with the kernel OpenWrt > uses, that is a big point in my opinion. > > > I have attached > > broadcom-wl for the linksys/cisco e3000/wrt610nv2 which should support > > fully simultaneous dual-band N on both 2.4 and 5ghz channels. > > Please do not attaches such bug files. > > Hauke >
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