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

From: Michael Buesch
Date: Fri Dec 14 2007 - 08:06:58 EST


On Friday 14 December 2007 13:59:54 Simon Holm ThÃgersen wrote:
> > This user did get the following messages in dmesg:
> >
> > b43err(dev->wl, "Firmware file \"%s\" not found "
> > "or load failed.\n", path);
>
> So the question seems to be why b43 needs version 4, when b43legacy and
> bcm43x uses version 3?

That's really a question, right?

Well. linux-2.4 doesn't work with the linux-2.6 modutils.
Windows Vista doesn't work with Windows 98 device drivers.
That leads to this assumption:
b43 doesn't work with version 3 firmware but needs version 4.

Newer drivers supporting newer hardware need newer firmware.

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Greetings Michael.
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