Re: [PATCH] b43legacy: Change the hardware radio enable logic and cleanup code

2007-09-21 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 21 September 2007 03:10:07 Larry Finger wrote: This change cleans up the radio-related messages in several ways. (1) The state of the rfkill switch is assumed to be on, rather than tested. Now, any user without such a switch will not see any messages. For devices with such

Re: [PATCH] b43legacy: Change the hardware radio enable logic and cleanup code

2007-09-21 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: Just that you are aware of it: This is a racy access to the radio_hw_enable variable, as we don't take the mutex here (we can't and we don't want). But it's OK, since nobody cares if the LED is racing for a second and displays the wrong state for a second. Same goes

Can't get wireless working with bcm43xx driver

2007-09-21 Thread Shocky
Hi, I recently bought an HP Pavilion dv2412ca laptop, which came with Vista pre-installed. I backed it up, then reformatted and installed Mandriva 2007.1. The laptop has a builtin wireless card that lspci identifies as a Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 02). I

Re: Can't get wireless working with bcm43xx driver

2007-09-21 Thread Larry Finger
Shocky wrote: Hi, I recently bought an HP Pavilion dv2412ca laptop, which came with Vista pre-installed. I backed it up, then reformatted and installed Mandriva 2007.1. The laptop has a builtin wireless card that lspci identifies as a Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN

Re: Can't get wireless working with bcm43xx driver

2007-09-21 Thread Ehud Gavron
There are two drivers that support the hardware. The new one (the one you want) that works with mac80211 is b43. It uses v4 firmware. The older one (the one you don't want) works with ieee80211softmac is b43legacy. It uses v3 firmware. I would download the latest wireless-dev kernel

Re: Can't get wireless working with bcm43xx driver

2007-09-21 Thread Ehud Gavron
Ehud Gavron wrote: There are two drivers that support the hardware. The new one (the one you want) that works with mac80211 is b43. It uses v4 firmware. The older one (the one you don't want) works with ieee80211softmac is b43legacy. It uses v3 firmware. Disregard the rest of my answer...

Lost wireless device?

2007-09-21 Thread John Pierce
Hello, I just upgraded fedora 7 to the 2.6.22.5-76 kernel last night. After the update the ndiswrapper quit working. So I thought I would give it another shot with the native driver. I downloaded the version 3 and 4 firmwares and tried the first time with the b43 driver which did not work, after

Lost wireless device?

2007-09-21 Thread John Pierce
Hello, I just upgraded fedora 7 to the 2.6.22.5-76 kernel last night. After the update the ndiswrapper quit working. So I thought I would give it another shot with the native driver. I downloaded the version 3 and 4 firmwares and tried the first time with the b43 driver which did not work, after

Re: Lost wireless device?

2007-09-21 Thread Larry Finger
John Pierce wrote: Hello, I just upgraded fedora 7 to the 2.6.22.5-76 kernel last night. After the update the ndiswrapper quit working. So I thought I would give it another shot with the native driver. I downloaded the version 3 and 4 firmwares and tried the first time with the b43 driver

Re: Lost wireless device?

2007-09-21 Thread Larry Finger
John Pierce wrote: Ok, I cannot post that output because ifup wlan0 tells me that the device is not present and is delaying the initialization. I have two of the laptops that are identical, on my wifes the card is still present and shows up as this device from lspci 03:00.0 Network