https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673054 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673054#c2 --- Comment #2 from Tamás Németh 2011-02-18 10:39:55 UTC --- (In reply to comment #1)

No separate firmware pack is needed, it is contained in the main kernel-firmware package instead. Please install that and you should be fine.

That definitely does not work. Some necessary files (symlinks) are missing from the kernel-firmware package. Namingly the following: bcm43xx-0.fw -> bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw -> bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw (And probably LICENCE.broadcom_bcm43xx ;-) -- 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=673054 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673054#c Tamás Németh changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|The firmware pack needed |Symlinks |for the driver 'brcm80211' |/lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx- |is missing from openSUSE |0.fw and |11.4 |/lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx_ | |hdr-0.fw are missing from | |the package kernel-firmware -- 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=673054 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673054#c5 Tamás Németh changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |REOPENED InfoProvider|nice@titanic.nyme.hu | --- Comment #5 from Tamás Németh 2011-02-19 06:19:48 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4)

Those symlinks are not in the main linux-firmware package upstream, why are they needed here?

According to my experiences the brcm80211 driver (at least in the kernel of 11.4 rc1) wants to load its firmware following those symlinks. If the links are not there, the driver gets loaded but complains about the lack of firmware and is unable to drive the card. -- 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=673054 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673054#c7 Ulrich Fieseler changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |ulfie_monster@arcor.de --- Comment #7 from Ulrich Fieseler 2011-02-21 16:35:44 UTC --- Had a similar problem with another Broadcom WiFi card (I hope we are all talking about PCI, not USB here), but /var/log/messages contained instructions on how to fix it, namely to execute a script (the name of which was mentioned there) that (with a running connection to the net!) would download a closed source driver, cut out the relevant firmware from that and store it in /lib/firmware. I needed to reboot afterwards to actually get WiFi to run, just trying to set up a connection again was not sufficient to make the driver use the newly obtained firmware. Actually, this seems to be the only reasonable way to do that: The firmware stuff is NOT free (and thus should not be available in any repo), but you can (and have to!) download it somehow. So either you make the user do it all manually (as suggested on the upstream web pages) or you provide him with such a script. Of course it would be nice if there were some kind of dialog during the installation process that told the user about what he has to do; currently it is like waiting for the user to browse the system log after something has been left in a not working state. -- 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=673054 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673054#c9 --- Comment #9 from Greg Kroah-Hartman 2011-02-23 17:46:22 UTC --- (In reply to comment #7)

Actually, this seems to be the only reasonable way to do that: The firmware stuff is NOT free (and thus should not be available in any repo), but you can (and have to!) download it somehow. So either you make the user do it all manually (as suggested on the upstream web pages) or you provide him with such a script. Of course it would be nice if there were some kind of dialog during the installation process that told the user about what he has to do; currently it is like waiting for the user to browse the system log after something has been left in a not working state.

Sorry, but you are referring to the other Broadcom firmware images for older devices, not this newer firmware for the new, in-kernel driver. That firmware _is_ distributable and is in the kernel-firmware package already. -- 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=673054 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673054#c11 --- Comment #11 from Tamás Németh 2011-02-23 19:06:42 UTC --- (In reply to comment #10)

That driver is closed source, and we can not include it at all, sorry.

OK,don't mind it.

You can fix it yourself with a simple symlink

I wouldn't send hundreds of bugreport if I wanted to solve the problem for just myself. If you put those symlinks in the package, every user would be able to use his/her card out of the box (if https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673295 were fixed too, of course) which would make openSUSE more popular. Create those symlinks in the package, please. -- 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=673054 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673054#c13 --- Comment #13 from Tamás Németh 2011-02-23 19:28:09 UTC --- (In reply to comment #12)

I am currently working on it...

Thank you very very much! The world doesn't deserve such a kindness. And I really mean it. -- 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=673054 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673054#c15 --- Comment #15 from Tamás Németh 2011-02-24 07:01:00 UTC --- (In reply to comment #14)

Can you test the kernel-firmware package at:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=kernel-firmware&project=home:gregkh:branches:Kernel:HEAD

and let me know if that works or not for you?

I may be because of my ignorance but http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gregkh:/branches:/Kernel:/ seems to be empty for me :( -- 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=673054 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673054#c17 --- Comment #17 from Tamás Németh 2011-02-24 20:09:06 UTC --- (In reply to comment #14)

Can you test the kernel-firmware package at:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=kernel-firmware&project=home:gregkh:branches:Kernel:HEAD

and let me know if that works or not for you?

Yes, it works perfectly. However, I'm afraid (but as a layman I'm not sure) that still there is something to prevent it (and probably other hardware, too) from working really out of the box: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673295 Is it really invalid? It didn't get installed automatically for me, despite I have a hardware which needs it :( -- 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=673054 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673054#c19 Greg Kroah-Hartman changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #19 from Greg Kroah-Hartman 2011-02-24 21:54:36 UTC --- Thanks for testing, package is submitted to openSUSE:11.4, hopefully it gets accepted in time for final release. -- 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=673054 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673054#c21 --- Comment #21 from Bernhard Wiedemann 2011-07-21 12:00:30 CEST --- This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (673054) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/76617 Factory / kernel-firmware -- 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.