On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 02:30:38PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 06:25:40PM +0200, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > > > I have found a good place to load the bcm43xx driver to be rc.sysinit, > > to where I moved the two lines from rc.local after line 301, right after > > the 'fix console loglevel' block. When the driver gets loaded thus > > early, wpa_supplicant should be ok. > > FWIW, dwmw2 pointed-out to me that a cleaner solution is to drop > the attached file into /etc/modprobe.d and remove the lines put into > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and /etc/rc.local by the bcm43xx-old-config > script. Attached is an updated bcm43xx-old-config which uses this technique. You'll probably need to reboot after running it. If you are already happily using bcm43xx, I suggest you ignore this message. :-) John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxx
#!/bin/sh BCM43XX_V3_FW="http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o"; wget $BCM43XX_V3_FW bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware -p .v3 wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o echo 'blacklist bcm43xx-mac80211' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist echo 'options bcm43xx fwpostfix=.v3' >> /etc/modprobe.conf modprobe -r bcm43xx-mac80211 # remove the new driver echo 'modprobe bcm43xx' >> /etc/rc.local BCM43XX_PCI_ID=`lspci -n | awk '$2 ~ "^0280" && $3 ~ "^14e4:43" { print $3 }' | sed -e 's/:/ /'` echo 'echo "'$BCM43XX_PCI_ID'" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bcm43xx/new_id' \ >> /etc/rc.local /etc/rc.local
