Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (242 mails)

[Mariusz Fik <fisiu82@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I made some feature request about include opensource firmware[1] for broadcom 
wifi cards into default installation media.
https://features.opensuse.org/306619

I made a package with this firmware in my home repo[2]. It has been build for 
oS 11.2 and Factory and resides in noarch.
After installing this package, firmware is located in '/lib/firmware/b43-
open'. b43 tries to load firmware first from '/lib/firmware/b43', if there is 
no firmware tries load from '/lib/firmware/b43-open'. Here is a dmesg output:

[ 1298.420958] b43-phy2: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
[ 1298.529980] phy2: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
[ 1298.556896] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PML, Firmware-ID: FW13 
]
[ 1303.347086] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
[ 1303.360600] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43-open/ucode5.fw
[ 1303.386197] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43-open/pcm5.fw
[ 1303.406365] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43-open/b0g0initvals5.fw
[ 1303.430840] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43-open/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
[ 1303.533063] b43-phy2: Loading OpenSource firmware version 410.31754
[ 1303.533085] b43-phy2: Hardware crypto acceleration not supported by 
firmware
[ 1303.533094] b43-phy2: QoS not supported by firmware
[ 1303.606220] Registered led device: b43-phy2::tx
[ 1303.628692] Registered led device: b43-phy2::rx
[ 1303.630645] Registered led device: b43-phy2::radio
[ 1303.654720] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready


Then if we want install proprietary firmware, we execute 
'install_bcm43xx_firmware', which install firmware into '/lib/firmware/b43'. 
Then dmesg output looks like this one:

[  116.655170] b43-phy1: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
[  116.771684] phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
[  116.829284] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PML, Firmware-ID: FW13 
]
[  121.359077] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
[  121.376799] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw
[  121.394859] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
[  121.412569] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
[  121.548055] b43-phy1: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 
15:32:10)
[  121.610461] Registered led device: b43-phy1::tx
[  121.637110] Registered led device: b43-phy1::rx
[  121.639184] Registered led device: b43-phy1::radio
[  121.663270] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

So it is not in conflict with our existing solution.
Which devel project should I choose for this firmware?

[1] - http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/
[2] - http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Fisiu/
-- 
Pozdrawiam / Best regards,
Mariusz Fik,
openSUSE Community Member