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 <jbenc@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |kssingvo@novell.com --- Comment #7 from Jiri Benc <jbenc@novell.com> 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.