Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

From: Michael Buesch
Date: Thu Dec 13 2007 - 19:46:37 EST


On Friday 14 December 2007 01:05:00 Ray Lee wrote:
> Okay, I had to modprobe rfkill-input and rfkill by hand, didn't
> realize that. Hopefully that'll be automatic soon. Regardless, upon
> doing so, and loading ssb and b43, it sees my card, but is still not
> fully functional. iwconfig sees:
>
> lo no wireless extensions.
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
> tun0 no wireless extensions.
> eth1 no wireless extensions.
> wlan0_rename IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
> Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
> Tx-Power=0 dBm
> Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> (eth0 is ethernet, eth1 doesn't exist -- usually it's the wireless.)
>
> `ifconfig` doesn't see eth1 or wlan0_rename.
>
> What else might I be doing wrong?

I don't know. Try ifconfig -a
Or tell udev to not crap up your device names.

> Regardless, perhaps scheduling
> bcm43xx for removal in 2.6.26 is a bit premature.

Oh come on. b43 is more than a year old now. How long should we wait?
Two or three? Forever?

--
Greetings Michael.
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