Bug#625510: Broadcom 802.11 driver missing from 2.6.39-rc[45]

2011-05-03 Thread Erich Schubert 
Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.39~rc5-1~experimental.1
Severity: normal
Tags: experimental

The driver for my other laptops broadcom BCM4313 seems to be missing.

Comparing the config files:
/boot/config-2.6.38-2-686:CONFIG_BRCM80211=m
/boot/config-2.6.38-2-686:CONFIG_BRCM80211_PCI=y
/boot/config-2.6.38-2-686:# CONFIG_BRCMFMAC is not set
/boot/config-2.6.39-rc5-686-pae:CONFIG_BRCM80211=m
/boot/config-2.6.39-rc5-686-pae:# CONFIG_BRCMSMAC is not set
/boot/config-2.6.39-rc5-686-pae:# CONFIG_BRCMFMAC is not set
/boot/config-2.6.39-rc5-686-pae:# CONFIG_BRCMDBG is not set

I wonder if maybe BRCMSMAC is the appropriate option now. A short search
revealed a patch to remove CONFIG_BRCM80211 since [...] renamed to brcmsmac.
Could you enable that option for the next upload? Thanks.
(Not sure what the full-mac cards are that the BRCMFMAC driver is for.  There
I saw something that you could not have SMAC und FMAC as module at the same
time (well, actually a patch that removes such a comment), but nothing yet of
the benefits of one over the other. Apparently fmac does more in the hardware
of the wireless card, but offering less features. Anyway, you could try
enabling both, unless there is some hint that this doesn't work?

Thank you for all your work on Debian!



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Bug#625510: Broadcom 802.11 driver missing from 2.6.39-rc[45]

2011-05-03 Thread Ben Hutchings 
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 03:23 +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
 Package: linux-2.6
 Version: 2.6.39~rc5-1~experimental.1
 Severity: normal
 Tags: experimental
 
 The driver for my other laptops broadcom BCM4313 seems to be missing.
 
 Comparing the config files:
 /boot/config-2.6.38-2-686:CONFIG_BRCM80211=m
 /boot/config-2.6.38-2-686:CONFIG_BRCM80211_PCI=y
 /boot/config-2.6.38-2-686:# CONFIG_BRCMFMAC is not set
 /boot/config-2.6.39-rc5-686-pae:CONFIG_BRCM80211=m
 /boot/config-2.6.39-rc5-686-pae:# CONFIG_BRCMSMAC is not set
 /boot/config-2.6.39-rc5-686-pae:# CONFIG_BRCMFMAC is not set
 /boot/config-2.6.39-rc5-686-pae:# CONFIG_BRCMDBG is not set
 
 I wonder if maybe BRCMSMAC is the appropriate option now. A short search
 revealed a patch to remove CONFIG_BRCM80211 since [...] renamed to brcmsmac.
 Could you enable that option for the next upload? Thanks.

Yes, thankyou.

 (Not sure what the full-mac cards are that the BRCMFMAC driver is for.  
 There
 I saw something that you could not have SMAC und FMAC as module at the same
 time (well, actually a patch that removes such a comment), but nothing yet of
 the benefits of one over the other.
[...]

It's for different hardware.  You can't choose between the drivers.

Ben.

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