Broadcom B43 Wireless Card / Driver Issues

John W. Linville linville at redhat.com
Wed Jan 30 15:31:28 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:02:28PM -0200, Martin Marques wrote:
> John W. Linville escribió:
> >On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:49:06PM -0200, Martin Marques wrote:
> >>John W. Linville escribió:
> >
> >>>If you want a technical explanation...the hardware in question is
> >>>"soft MAC" device which uses the mac80211 infrastructure in the
> >>>kernel. 
> >>Isn't this one of the things that are gonna get improved with the new 
> >>driver in kernel 2.6.25?
> >
> >Which new driver is that?  I think you must be thinking of something else.
> >
> >The b43 driver has been upstream since 2.6.23, FWIW.
> 
> I mean the changes in the firmware (maybe I misunderstood the thread in 
> the bcm43xx list).

I see...well, b43 firmware has nothing to do with how mac80211 works.

Hth!

John
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