Re: [PATCH V3] b43legacy: Fix machine check errors for PPC architecture with BCM4306/2

2007-09-16 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 16 September 2007 02:52:11 Larry Finger wrote: In b43legacy, the variable gmode is always set. With a BCM4306/2, a variable is needed to control the execution path through the PHY and radio initialization, otherwise there are attempts to read from invalid registers. On x86 platforms,

Re: software powerup

2007-09-16 Thread Marcin Kosiba
On Sunday 16 September 2007, Larry Finger wrote: The only switch associated with any of the BCM cards that I know about is the radio-enable switch. If that is what you need, it can only be controlled externally. The software can read its state, but not control it. not fun - oh well... gotta

Re: software powerup

2007-09-16 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 16 September 2007 11:26:21 Marcin Kosiba wrote: On Sunday 16 September 2007, Larry Finger wrote: The only switch associated with any of the BCM cards that I know about is the radio-enable switch. If that is what you need, it can only be controlled externally. The software can read

Re: software powerup

2007-09-16 Thread Marcin Kosiba
On Sunday 16 September 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: On Sunday 16 September 2007 11:26:21 Marcin Kosiba wrote: On Sunday 16 September 2007, Larry Finger wrote: The only switch associated with any of the BCM cards that I know about is the radio-enable switch. If that is what you need, it can

Re: software powerup

2007-09-16 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 16 September 2007 12:17:50 Marcin Kosiba wrote: On Sunday 16 September 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: On Sunday 16 September 2007 11:26:21 Marcin Kosiba wrote: On Sunday 16 September 2007, Larry Finger wrote: The only switch associated with any of the BCM cards that I know about

Re: software powerup

2007-09-16 Thread Larry Finger
Marcin Kosiba wrote: ok, my bad - had the wrong firmware version up there (seems as though the error messages are shown in dmesg only if I load the module manually - if it is loaded on startup they probably go somewhere else..) They are always in dmesg on my system. bcm43xx: Radio turned

Re: software powerup

2007-09-16 Thread Ehud Gavron
Perhaps a couple of changes to the driver messages would help eliminate confusion and support repetition? Larry Finger wrote: bcm43xx: Radio turned off Perhaps: bcm43xx: Radio turned off. Interface must be enabled (ifconfig up) ... bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0xf5, p1 ox5a (2003-12-22

b43 module and master mode?

2007-09-16 Thread Martti Huttunen
Hi people, I got the b43 driver up in my machine, using the following card: 00:0b.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) Is there a way to get it working in master mode? If so, which kernel version I should be using on

[AirForce One 54g] working

2007-09-16 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, I have a linksys WPC54GS pcmcia wifi card. lspci details below. I tried it with the latest firmware and Ubuntu gutsy's 2.6.22-10-generic and 2.6.22-11-generic kernels. With the former, I got WPA working intermittently, but not stably (ie it'd die and need the driver reloading). With the

[PATCH V2] bcm43xx: Change radio hardware switch status printk from debug to regular

2007-09-16 Thread Larry Finger
Some distros ship bcm43xx with debugging printout disabled. For those BCM43xx devices with radio on/off switches, this makes it impossible to know if the radio is on or off. This patch changes a pair of debug printk's into ordinary printk's. It also changes the message that prints when the radio