Re: [PATCH] ssb: Implement virtual SPROM on disk

2010-03-21 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 21 March 2010 01:14:51 Larry Finger wrote: Some recent BCM43XX devices lack an on-board SPROM. The pertinent data from the SPROM could be included in the kernel; however, this presents a problem in the generation of a unique, reproducible MAC address. The solution has been to create

BCM4312 working great

2010-03-21 Thread Pascal de Bruijn
Hi, I've just upgraded my laptop from Ubuntu Karmic to Ubuntu Lucid Beta1 (2.6.32 kernel), and the open source b43 driver is working wonderfully for me: 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01) 02:00.0 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01) [2.467699] b43-pci-bridge

[PATCH V2] ssb: Implement virtual SPROM on disk

2010-03-21 Thread Larry Finger
Some recent BCM43XX devices lack an on-board SPROM. The pertinent data from the SPROM could be included in the kernel; however, this presents a problem in the generation of a unique, reproducible MAC address. The solution has been to create a utility that generates a virtual SPROM image with a