linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer

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Date:	Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:43:15 +0100
From:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
To:	"Ray Lee" <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
Cc:	bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de, "Daniel Walker" <dwalker@...sta.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux@...mer.net,
	jonathan@...masters.org, matthias.kaehlcke@...il.com,
	kjwinchester@...il.com, mbuesch@...enet.de,
	"John Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

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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