Hi Sorry about the late reply, I've been traveling till this evening and am still a little busy till the end of the week. On Monday 09 November 2009, Onkar Shinde wrote: > I am interested in testing this in Debian. My laptop has wireless card > based on 4306 chipset. Please let me know when you have a package > ready for testing. The packages (b43-asm and openfwwf) are basically ready since february and have just waited for a compatible kernel (>=2.6.31) to enter Debian/ unstable, because the proposed (kernel-) backports have been ignored by the kernel team so far. Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.berlios.de/fullstory/b43-asm/trunk Vcs-Browser: http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/fullstory/b43-asm/trunk http://sidux.com/debian/pool/fix.main/b/b43-asm/ Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.berlios.de/fullstory/openfwwf/trunk Vcs-Browser: http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/fullstory/openfwwf/trunk/ http://sidux.com/debian/pool/fix.main/o/openfwwf/ I've been successfully using them with BCM4306 and BCM4318 (and have positive feedback for BCM4311) since kernel 2.6.28 (with the required backports): http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/fullstory/openfwwf/trunk/debian/README.Debian What's left to do, in order to upload them to Debian proper (I hope I can find a little time next weekend to do the final cosmetics and talk with the potential sponsor): - add get-orig-source to b43-asm, to fetch sources from upstream git (there are no release tarballs, nor "ever" will according to upstream) - either add a boilerplate README.source to explain quilt usage or moving to source version "3.0 (quilt)", given that I really hate those useless README.source boilerplates just for standard quilt (or dpatch) usage, I'd personally tend to v3.0 - but this depends on the preferences of the potential sponsor of coourse. - adding lintian overrides where needed <-- neither upstream has any intention to drop an upstream changelog in a standard location - bump standards version to 3.8.3 for b43-asm, no (further) changes necessary OpenFWWF isn't perfect, the hardware coverage is severely limited and there are known bugs (under investigation upstream)[1], furthermore the source, even though being the genuine preferred form of modification is basically read-only, without learning the bcm-v4 specifications by heart and serious efforts to understand the state-machine and having access to good signal analyzers and wlan testing equipment - but it still just works for rev 5 core b43 cards, including ap support and noisy environments. > Cheers, > Onkar Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann [1] http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ [2] http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/
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