Test kernel with Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support.

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Fri Jan 6 16:39:26 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 16:35 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 11:30 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > It turns out that as of today's SVN snapshot, the driver doesn't support
> > SIOCGIWSTATS yet, so no signal quality for you.  Furthermore, it doesn't
> > hook up scanned signal quality to its internal network list, so
> > ieee80211_wx_get_scan() can't get the quality data.
> 
> Yeah, we'll get there. For the time being, I'd assume that _all_ such
> problems are down to the bcm43xx driver, not to NetworkManager.
> 
> Today's bcm43xx snapshot should be in the 2.6.15-1.1829_FC5 kernel which
> is now building, btw.

Though quite soon we'll be tossing lots of the actual card/driver
manipulation over to wpa_supplicant (even for unencrypted and WEP).  So
most of the bitrate, frequency, etc stuff won't be in NM anymore.  Then
we get to fix wpa_supplicant ;)

Dan





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