https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346533 User kssingvo@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346533#c2 Klaus Singvogel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|kssingvo@novell.com | --- Comment #2 from Klaus Singvogel 2008-01-07 05:52:28 MST --- Oh. Sorry. :-( I found the problem and fixed it in the meantime. The module bcm43xx requires now additional firmware files to be loaded. They have to be extracted from windows drivers by "bcm43xx-fwcutter" tool and stored into /lib/firmware directory. This was previously not necessary for my version of this card. The maintainace process for kernel process seems not to be working properly here. For sake of completeness: - the kernel I'm using now, is: 2.6.22.13 - the kernel where it surely worked out-of-the-box before, was: 2.6.22.9 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346533 User jbenc@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346533#c5 Jiri Benc changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #5 from Jiri Benc 2008-01-07 11:27:29 MST --- That's really strange. The firmware was definitely needed before the update - the BCM 43xx cards doesn't work without a firmware. We don't ship bcm43xx firmware because of licensing issues. You (or somebody else) had to install the firmware before, either using bcm43xx-fwcutter or by copying the files from another system. If the firmware files couldn't be found after the update, there has to be something another involved. One thing I can think of is a change of firmware files names but that didn't happen between the mentioned versions. Overall, there's no change in bcm43xx and only irrelevant changes in ieee80211 between those versions. I also cannot find any change in the firmware loading infrastructure at the kernel side. Another possibility would be a change in the location of firmware files. That's a responsibility of udev - did you update udev along with the kernel? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346533 User jbenc@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346533#c7 Jiri Benc changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |kssingvo@novell.com --- Comment #7 from Jiri Benc 2008-01-07 12:00:12 MST --- (In reply to comment #6 from Klaus Singvogel)

Please remember that some special devices of the bcm43xx family are running even without the firmware. iBook developers did this make possible, and AFAIK I'm having one those chips in my laptop too.

How that could be possible? Every 802.11 card needs a firmware. There's no way around that. Some older cards had the firmware permanently stored in a (EP)ROM but I don't know about any such bcm43xx card. And even if such card existed, the driver simply doesn't support it. The driver _always_ ask the user space for the firmware. It did it before the update and it does that now. Please do a fresh installation of 10.3 without installing the firmware and give me a shell access, I'm really interested in that. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346533 User jbenc@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346533#c9 Jiri Benc changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED Info Provider|kssingvo@novell.com | Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #9 from Jiri Benc 2008-01-09 03:56:09 MST --- LEDs usually have a little to do with the rest of the hardware. They can be lit independently of the state of the card. For lighting them you indeed don't need any firmware but that doesn't mean the card is working. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.