https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467892 Summary: b43-phy0: warning: You are using an old firmware image. Support for old firmware will be removed in July 2008. Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: RC 2 Platform: i686 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081213 SUSE/1.1.14-0.1 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 With the current Broadcom firmware (351.126 (2006-07-29 05:54:02) as described in http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43) the kernel reports: Jan 21 11:11:08 delle-800 kernel: input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input10 Jan 21 11:11:09 delle-800 kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 351.126 (2006-07-29 05:54:02) Jan 21 11:11:09 delle-800 kernel: b43-phy0 warning: You are using an old firmware image. Support for old firmware will be removed in July 2008. Jan 21 11:11:09 delle-800 kernel: b43-phy0 warning: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the latest firmware (version 4). Note that the firmware installed IS broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 (successfully processed by the supplied b43-fwcutter). The bug was present in openSUSE 110.0 also. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to use a Broadcom BCM4309 802.11a/b/g wireless card (Dell Optiplex D800) Actual Results: The kernel will complain about old firmware. The kernel will tell you that support had been dropped months ago. Expected Results: A way to make the wlan working AND the kernel happy. -- 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.