On 05/11/2012 05:16 PM, Alin M Elena wrote:
I tried to install the b43 driver... now the situation of yast and zypper does not make the things easy... for some reason... the zypper install breaks in the post install part... (reported it as a bug on bgn).
running the firmware install by hand, hangs to
[root@abbaton:/home/alin]: /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware Downloading b43 firmware ###################################################################################################################### 100.0% Extracting b43 firmware This file is recognised as: filename : wl_apsta.o version : 508.154 MD5 : 023fafbe4918e384dd531a046dbc03e8 Extracting b43/ucode19.fw Extracting b43/lp0initvals14.fw Extracting b43/ucode16_lp.fw Extracting b43/ucode16_sslpn.fw Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals14.fw Extracting b43/b0g0initvals9.fw Extracting b43/sslpn2bsinitvals17.fw Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals9.fw Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals13.fw Extracting b43/sslpn4bsinitvals22.fw Extracting b43/ucode16_sslpn_nobt.fw Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw Extracting b43/sslpn2initvals17.fw Extracting b43/ucode22_sslpn.fw Extracting b43/b0g0initvals13.fw Extracting b43/ucode17.fw Extracting b43/sslpn1bsinitvals20.fw Extracting b43/ucode14.fw Extracting b43/a0g0initvals5.fw Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals16.fw Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals5.fw Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals11.fw Extracting b43/n0absinitvals11.fw Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals13.fw Extracting b43/sslpn4initvals22.fw Extracting b43/pcm5.fw Extracting b43/ucode9.fw Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals9.fw Extracting b43/ucode20.fw Extracting b43/a0g1initvals5.fw Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals16.fw Extracting b43/lp0initvals15.fw Extracting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw Extracting b43/sslpn0initvals16.fw Extracting b43/a0g1initvals13.fw Extracting b43/sslpn2initvals19.fw Extracting b43/a0g1initvals9.fw Extracting b43/ucode5.fw Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals13.fw Extracting b43/n0initvals16.fw Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals9.fw Extracting b43/ucode11.fw Extracting b43/lp0initvals16.fw Extracting b43/ucode16_mimo.fw Extracting b43/a0g0initvals9.fw Extracting b43/lp0initvals13.fw Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals5.fw Extracting b43/ucode13.fw Extracting b43/sslpn2bsinitvals19.fw Extracting b43/ucode15.fw Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw Extracting b43/n0initvals11.fw Extracting b43/sslpn0bsinitvals16.fw Extracting b43/sslpn1initvals20.fw
Downloading b43legacy firmware ###################################################################################################################### 100.0% Extracting b43legacy firmware This file is recognised as: filename : wl_apsta.o version : 295.14 MD5 : e08665c5c5b66beb9c3b2dd54aa80cb3 Extracting b43legacy/ucode2.fw Extracting b43legacy/ucode4.fw Extracting b43legacy/ucode5.fw Extracting b43legacy/ucode11.fw Extracting b43legacy/pcm4.fw Extracting b43legacy/pcm5.fw Extracting b43legacy/a0g0bsinitvals2.fw Extracting b43legacy/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw Extracting b43legacy/a0g0initvals5.fw Extracting b43legacy/a0g1bsinitvals5.fw Extracting b43legacy/a0g0initvals2.fw Extracting b43legacy/a0g1initvals5.fw Extracting b43legacy/b0g0bsinitvals2.fw Extracting b43legacy/b0g0initvals5.fw Extracting b43legacy/b0g0initvals2.fw Extracting b43legacy/a0g0bsinitvals5.fw
b43 firmware successfully installed. /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware: line 52: 3964 Killed /sbin/modprobe -r b43
Ignore that failure. The failing command is there to unload and reload the driver if it was loaded before the firmware was loaded. As you have installed wl, you need to clean up the mess it created. I have no idea if it has an uninstall that fixes all that. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org