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en:users:drivers:b43 [2015/02/19 20:58]
Rafał Miłecki [Known problems & limitations] Info about 5 GHz and N-PHY
en:users:drivers:b43 [2015/02/20 22:48]
Rafał Miłecki Info about older problems, so ppl stop repeating info about bugs ;)
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   * HT-PHY: no support for 5 GHz   * HT-PHY: no support for 5 GHz
   * No support for 802.11n features (HT, aggregation,​ 40 MHz width)   * No support for 802.11n features (HT, aggregation,​ 40 MHz width)
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 +===== Resolved problems =====
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 +  * G-PHY devices: not working with kernels 3.15 and 3.16-rc1 (a regression). This was fixed in 3.15.5 ([[https://​git.kernel.org/​cgit/​linux/​kernel/​git/​stable/​linux-stable.git/​commit/?​h=linux-3.15.y&​id=6f3f164bd0efe9a090cd74e08d6195c95024a1d1|6f3f164]]) and 3.16-rc3 ([[http://​git.kernel.org/​cgit/​linux/​kernel/​git/​torvalds/​linux.git/​commit/?​id=2fc68eb122c7ea6cd5be1fe7d6650c0beb2f4f40|2fc68eb]]).
 +  * Scanning/​connectivity problems: caused by **b43** bug exposed with kernel 3.8 (by [[http://​git.kernel.org/​cgit/​linux/​kernel/​git/​torvalds/​linux.git/​commit/?​id=0172bb75073e11a5aa9d8a953bdaefb8709f00c8|0172bb7]]). Fixed in kernel 3.14 (by [[http://​git.kernel.org/​cgit/​linux/​kernel/​git/​torvalds/​linux.git/​commit/?​id=64e5acb09ca6b50c97299cff9ef51299470b29f2|64e5acb]]) and backported to 3.13.2, 3.12.10, 3.10.29.
  
 ===== List of hardware ===== ===== List of hardware =====
en/users/drivers/b43.txt · Last modified: 2018/08/23 14:22 by Carsten Grohmann