BCM43XX Firmware in F7T3

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 00:54 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Christopher A. Williams <chrisw <at> cawllc.com> writes:
> > kernel: bcm43xx: Firmware: no support for microcode extracted from
> > version 4.x binary drivers.
> 
> The softmac version of the bcm43xx driver wants a firmware revision <=3.x, the 
> mac80211 (Devicescape 802.11 stack) version of the driver wants a firmware 
> revision 4.x. (It's not directly related to the underlying 802.11 stack, it's 
> just that the mac80211 version is the development version of the driver, the 
> softmac version is the stable one.) Apparently, you previously got the mac80211 
> version and now get the softmac version of the driver for some reason.
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't answer the question you'll probably have next, which is 
> why you suddenly got a different version of the driver as the default. I know 
> the F7 Rawhide kernels are shipping both 802.11 stacks, and bcm43xx is one of 
> the drivers present in both, but I don't know how the kernel decides which of 
> the drivers to load. That's probably a question for the Fedora kernel 
> maintainers.

Thanks! That was definitely it. I switched to an older 3.x version of
the firmware and connected straight away.

Guess we'll have to wait for the kernel developers as to why this
changed again.

Cheers,

Chris

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Christopher A. Williams <chrisw at cawllc.com>