On 09/15/2013 05:40 PM, James Hilliard wrote: > From what I'm seeing everyone is patching broadcom-wl around > this(http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2) > driver for the Netgear WNDR4500 for pretty much everything broadcom-wl > related.
That is wrong! broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 is just used to extract the ucode and use that ucode with b43 and brcmsmac. The proprietary Broadcom driver OpenWrt uses are these, the actual file depends on the endianes. http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3_mips.tar.bz2 http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3_mipsel.tar.bz2 To verify this see package/kernel/broadcom-wl/Makefile Like everyone already told you in IRC this driver is *not* based on the GPL release by some vendor, but this is a version specially modified for OpenWrt by someone with access to the source code of the proprietary wifi driver. Most of the patches we apply on top of this driver are there to make the open source part compile with more recent kernel versions, see package/kernel/broadcom-wl/patches/ > What's the point of making a bunch of patches for this file > when you could just use one of the many other broadcom-wl drivers that > are actually designed for the target device already. The driver designed for this device do not work with the kernel OpenWrt uses, that is a big point in my opinion. > I have attached > broadcom-wl for the linksys/cisco e3000/wrt610nv2 which should support > fully simultaneous dual-band N on both 2.4 and 5ghz channels. Please do not attaches such bug files. Hauke _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
