Re: b43legacy: My laptop has no button for rfkill but the driver sais it has...

2008-12-24 Thread Ulf Dambacher
Matthew Garrett schrieb: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:08:17PM +0100, Ulf Dambacher wrote: >> Hi >> >> I hav a dell inspiron 5100 and it has no hardware button device to >> toggle rfkill. >> The broadcom bcm4301 card has this feature and the driver sees it and >> disables itself hard, wich can not

Re: b43legacy: My laptop has no button for rfkill but the driver sais it has...

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Buesch
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 11:16:36 Ulf Dambacher wrote: > Matthew Garrett schrieb: > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:08:17PM +0100, Ulf Dambacher wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I hav a dell inspiron 5100 and it has no hardware button device to > >> toggle rfkill. > >> The broadcom bcm4301 card has this

Re: b43legacy: My laptop has no button for rfkill but the driver sais it has...

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Buesch
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 16:58:14 Gene Heskett wrote: > With all due respect Michael, if it has been disabled by the panel switch > such > as the one on my lappy, can it not be made to emit such an error message so > that we know we have to toggle that pushbutton? We emit a message that th

Re: b43legacy: My laptop has no button for rfkill but the driver sais it has...

2008-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Michael Buesch wrote: >On Wednesday 24 December 2008 11:16:36 Ulf Dambacher wrote: >> Matthew Garrett schrieb: >> > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:08:17PM +0100, Ulf Dambacher wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> >> >> I hav a dell inspiron 5100 and it has no hardware button device to >

Re: b43legacy: My laptop has no button for rfkill but the driver sais it has...

2008-12-24 Thread Ulf Dambacher
Hi together To get it right: - i have no rfkill hardware button anywhere on the laptop. - Yesterday I opened it and there are no unused pins or connectors on the card or the motherboard. - the computer does not run any m$ software wich could interfere here - my dell bios (version A32) sais the c

Re: b43legacy: My laptop has no button for rfkill but the driver sais it has...

2008-12-24 Thread David Ellingsworth
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Ulf Dambacher wrote: > Hi together > > To get it right: > - i have no rfkill hardware button anywhere on the laptop. > - Yesterday I opened it and there are no unused pins or connectors on the > card or the motherboard. > - the computer does not run any m$ softwa

[PATCH] b43/ssb: Add SPROM8 extraction and LP-PHY detection

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Buesch
This adds detection code for the LP-PHY and SPROM extraction code for version 8, which is needed by the LP-PHY and newer N-PHY. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch --- Please queue for 2.6.29 Index: wireless-testing/drivers/ssb/b43_pci_bridge.c ==

Re: b43legacy: My laptop has no button for rfkill but the driver sais it has...

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Buesch
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 18:16:20 Ulf Dambacher wrote: > And both drivers use exactly the same code to test for the rfkill button. one > sais on the other sees off. You must also honor the fact that you are running a completely different kernel. It's _not_ that just "one driver works, but th

Re: [PATCH] b43/ssb: Add SPROM8 extraction and LP-PHY detection

2008-12-24 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 00:39 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > This adds detection code for the LP-PHY and SPROM > extraction code for version 8, which is needed by the LP-PHY and > newer N-PHY. I still get mac address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff with this, but it might just be that we need to use a different a

Broadcom 11n implementation

2008-12-24 Thread Johannes Berg
Hey, I hope those of you who got their presents today enjoyed that. Here's one from me for the poor souls like myself who have a Broadcom 11n chip: I've been publishing specifications for things we have reverse engineered, is anyone interested in implementing this? If so, go wild, but synchronise

Re: [PATCH] b43/ssb: Add SPROM8 extraction and LP-PHY detection

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Buesch
On Thursday 25 December 2008 00:52:04 Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 00:39 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > This adds detection code for the LP-PHY and SPROM > > extraction code for version 8, which is needed by the LP-PHY and > > newer N-PHY. > > I still get mac address ff:ff:ff:ff:

Re: Broadcom 11n implementation

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Buesch
On Thursday 25 December 2008 01:05:30 Johannes Berg wrote: > Hey, > > I hope those of you who got their presents today enjoyed that. Here's > one from me for the poor souls like myself who have a Broadcom 11n chip: > > I've been publishing specifications for things we have reverse > engineered, i

Re: Broadcom 11n implementation

2008-12-24 Thread YanBo
On 12/25/08, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Thursday 25 December 2008 01:05:30 Johannes Berg wrote: >> Hey, >> >> I hope those of you who got their presents today enjoyed that. Here's >> one from me for the poor souls like myself who have a Broadcom 11n chip: >> >> I've been publishing specifications

I am a student and want to do some research on my bcm4311 driver, what free kernel debugger can I use?

2008-12-24 Thread Jihong Dong
Hello, everybody My linux is kernel linux 2.6.27 ubuntu 8.10 I googled the internet and found out the kgdb and kdb can be used, but kgdb only supports up to 2.6.15 and kdb, I can not download anything from its website. I downloaded linux2.6.15 and tried to compile it(make it), but there were err