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broadcom b43 no mac phy0 error-broadcom (  tnrooster 03-06-2008
09:14 AM  Partially solved-broadcom b43 no mac phy0 error-
broadcom I think I finally see why my 4306 rev3 card doesn't
work with the b43 driver setup. Mine works perfect with bcm43
but I cant load it as the machine whines about it needing the
b43 driver. Why?  B43 uses the mac I'm guessing to figure out
which driver to use, b43 or b43legacy, and b43 fails to see the
mac on my card. A quick search shows others having the exact
saem problem, no mac address assigned to phy0 or well a false
one.  Mine shows a no-op'ed ff;ff;ff.... which is nothing right?
Well if it has version 4 and up b43 uses the standard driver
trying to make the on chip encryption negotiations but if its
earlier it uses something like the bcm43 where the CPU does all
the math.  My card needs b43legacy but it refuses to load it and
I believe its because the no-op'ed mac makes it see it as a
later version than the threshold