linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH wireless 5/5] wifi: b43: Support advertising lack of QoS capability

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Message-ID: <20231230184335.53e33db2@barney>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:43:35 +0100
From: Michael Büsch <m@...s.ch>
To: Rahul Rameshbabu <sergeantsagara@...tonmail.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
 b43-dev@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless 5/5] wifi: b43: Support advertising lack of QoS
 capability

On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 17:10:26 +0000
Rahul Rameshbabu <sergeantsagara@...tonmail.com> wrote:

> > The firmware probably is just too old for this device.  
> 
> I just retested with newer firmware released on 2012-08-15. I still see
> the same issue with QoS. This appears to be the newest firmware I can
> acquire from http://lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/, which I extract from
> broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.

It's still pretty old.
Nobody has worked on getting a newer version extracted for a long time.

But I'm fine with just disabling QoS on this device.
Upgrading to a newer firmware probably is a bigger change.
That could be done later.

-- 
Michael Büsch
https://bues.ch/

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