On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:17:52PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, John W. Linville wrote: > > The Fedora kernels carry a patch to geld the PCI ID table of the > > bcm43xx driver. So, all that modprobing and blacklisting should > > be unnecessary. > > but i don't always use fedora kernels, i frequently use the latest > source and roll my own, so i'm assuming i should still use the above > in those cases, right? I suppose so. > and will that fedora patch eventually be pushed upstream? Not as-is, no. The future disposition of conflicts between the bcm43xx and bcm43xx-mac80211 drivers is still unresolved. FWIW, the bcm43xx-mac80211 driver is still not in mainline kernels. John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxx
