https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642#c7
--- Comment #7 from Tamás Németh 2011-02-17 12:48:23 UTC ---
I have the following Broadcom WiFi card:
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n
Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device [144f:7175]
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 17
Memory at d4500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-de-ff-ff-1c-4c-ed
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
This is said to be driven by the b43 kernel module (
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/wireless/446481-b...
). So I installed b43-fwcutter, and executed /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
as adviced at
http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43?action=show&redirect=en%2Fusers%2FDrivers%2Fbcm43xx#openSUSE
found in /usr/share/doc/packages/b43-fwcutter/README.
The directories /lib/firmware/b43 and /lib/firmware/b43legacy got filled with
firmware(?) files:
netadmin:~ # ls /lib/firmware/b43*
/lib/firmware/b43:
a0g0bsinitvals5.fw a0g1bsinitvals13.fw a0g1initvals5.fw
b0g0bsinitvals9.fw lp0bsinitvals13.fw lp0initvals13.fw n0absinitvals11.fw
n0initvals16.fw ucode11.fw ucode16.fw
a0g0bsinitvals9.fw a0g1bsinitvals5.fw a0g1initvals9.fw b0g0initvals13.fw
lp0bsinitvals14.fw lp0initvals14.fw n0bsinitvals11.fw pcm5.fw
ucode13.fw ucode5.fw
a0g0initvals5.fw a0g1bsinitvals9.fw b0g0bsinitvals13.fw b0g0initvals5fw
lp0bsinitvals15.fw lp0initvals15.fw n0bsinitvals16.fw
sslpn0bsinitvals16.fw ucode14.fw ucode9.fw
a0g0initvals9.fw a0g1initvals13.fw b0g0bsinitvals5.fw b0g0initvals9fw
lp0bsinitvals16.fw lp0initvals16.fw n0initvals11.fw sslpn0initvals16.fw
ucode15.fw
/lib/firmware/b43legacy:
a0g0bsinitvals2.fw a0g0initvals2.fw a0g1bsinitvals5.fw b0g0bsinitvals2.fw
b0g0initvals2.fw pcm4.fw ucode11.fw ucode4.fw
a0g0bsinitvals5.fw a0g0initvals5.fw a0g1initvals5.fw b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
b0g0initvals5.fw pcm5.fw ucode2.fw ucode5.fw
netadmin:~ #
However even after restarting the machine the module b43 doesn't get
autoloaded, the wireless network interface does not exist in the kernel (I only
have lo and eth0), and everything I found in syslog, seemingly related to this
problem is this:
[ 6.133840] brcm80211: module is from the staging directory, the quality is
unknown, you have been warned.
[ 6.136891] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15
[ 6.136921] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 6.136923] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 6.136925] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 6.139173] brcm80211 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ
17
[ 6.139180] brcm80211 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 6.164506] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.6
[ 6.220599] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb
[ 6.221063] Registered led device: toshiba::illumination
[ 6.342492] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 6.348640] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device 2SF001 (0bda:58f5)
[ 6.381243] brcm80211: fail to load firmware brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
[ 6.381247] brcm80211: Failed to find firmware usually in /lib/firmware/brcm
[ 6.381291] brcm80211 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 6.381308] brcm80211: wl_pci_probe: wl_attach failed!
Why not b43? Is this the driver from
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php ?
Anyway, `find . -name 'bcm*'` issued in /lib/firmware leads to no result.
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