Extracting firmware from Broadcom STA driver

2009-11-22 Thread Przemek Kulczycki
Hi. Is it possible to modify b43-fwcutter to extract firmware from the Broadcom's STA driver? http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php I'm asking about that because Canonical is distributing this driver as part of the Ubuntu CDs, so it would be possible to have a working b43 driver wit

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-22 Thread Michael Buesch
On Thursday 19 November 2009 22:24:29 Michael Buesch wrote: > This rewrites the error handling policies in the TX status handler. > It tries to be error-tolerant as in "try hard to not crash the machine". > It won't recover from errors (that are bugs in the firmware or driver), > because that's imp

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-22 Thread Larry Finger
On 11/22/2009 11:52 AM, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Thursday 19 November 2009 22:24:29 Michael Buesch wrote: >> This rewrites the error handling policies in the TX status handler. >> It tries to be error-tolerant as in "try hard to not crash the machine". >> It won't recover from errors (that are bu

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-22 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 22 November 2009 19:11:52 Larry Finger wrote: > On 11/22/2009 11:52 AM, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Thursday 19 November 2009 22:24:29 Michael Buesch wrote: > >> This rewrites the error handling policies in the TX status handler. > >> It tries to be error-tolerant as in "try hard to not

Re: Fatal DMA error problem with netbook and BCM4312

2009-11-22 Thread Chris Vine
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:15:12 + Chris Vine wrote: > WARM BOOT FROM KERNEL WITH WL MODULE INSTALLED > > The patched kernel makes no change on a warm boot in the sense that > if I warm boot after initialising the wireless device with the wl > module then the b43 module appears to work correctly,

Re: Fatal DMA error problem with netbook and BCM4312

2009-11-22 Thread Larry Finger
On 11/22/2009 01:03 PM, Chris Vine wrote: > On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:15:12 + > Chris Vine wrote: >> WARM BOOT FROM KERNEL WITH WL MODULE INSTALLED >> >> The patched kernel makes no change on a warm boot in the sense that >> if I warm boot after initialising the wireless device with the wl >> mod

Re: Extracting firmware from Broadcom STA driver

2009-11-22 Thread Larry Finger
On 11/22/2009 11:47 AM, Przemek Kulczycki wrote: > Hi. > Is it possible to modify b43-fwcutter to extract firmware from the > Broadcom's STA driver? > http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php > > I'm asking about that because Canonical is distributing this driver as > part of the Ubunt

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-22 Thread Larry Finger
On 11/19/2009 03:24 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: > This rewrites the error handling policies in the TX status handler. > It tries to be error-tolerant as in "try hard to not crash the machine". > It won't recover from errors (that are bugs in the firmware or driver), > because that's impossible. Howev

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-22 Thread Larry Finger
On 11/19/2009 03:24 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: > This rewrites the error handling policies in the TX status handler. > It tries to be error-tolerant as in "try hard to not crash the machine". > It won't recover from errors (that are bugs in the firmware or driver), > because that's impossible. Howev