https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642#c3 Li Bin changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|Network |Kernel AssignedTo|bili@novell.com |kernel-maintainers@forge.pr | |ovo.novell.com --- Comment #3 from Li Bin 2010-12-01 09:29:12 UTC --- Assign to kernel team. -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642#c5 Jeff Mahoney changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO CC| |jeffm@novell.com InfoProvider| |harmie@opensuse.fi --- Comment #5 from Jeff Mahoney 2011-02-07 18:16:01 UTC --- Can you reproduce this with the current Factory kernel? -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642#c Jeff Mahoney changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version|Milestone 4 of 6 |Milestone 6 of 6 AssignedTo|kernel-maintainers@forge.pr |jslaby@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | -- 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.

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. -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642#c9 --- Comment #9 from Tamás Németh 2011-02-17 13:17:34 UTC --- Wow, installing http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/driver:/wireless/openSUSE_11.3/noa... as adviced in http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/wireless/451722-b... did the trick for me. The interface started to work, however I'm unable to join an ad-hoc network, only infrastructure SSID's. -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642#c11 --- Comment #11 from Tamás Németh 2011-02-17 15:55:54 UTC --- (In reply to comment #10)

Yes, b43's ad-hoc support is known to be broken.

This is not the b43 driver. B43 doesn't even support BCM4313 (14e4:4727): http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 I'm using the driver called 'brcm80211'. The reason of that my card didn't work is the openSUSE 11.4 currently lacks the package brcm80211-firmware-*-*.noarch.rpm Please add it to the offical repos and my card will start working. To tell the truth i finally realised that my symptom is technically different from the one described in this report. Should I open a new report? -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642#c Jiri Slaby changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|wlan does not work after |b43: wlan does not work |upgrade to milestone 4 |after upgrade to milestone | |4 -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642#c14 Jiri Slaby changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #14 from Jiri Slaby 2011-02-26 11:55:54 UTC --- . -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642#c Jiri Slaby changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |ASSIGNED -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642#c17 Rafał Miłecki changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |zajec5@gmail.com --- Comment #17 from Rafał Miłecki 2011-08-10 08:54:38 UTC --- DMA errors are well known issue happening with b43. Quote from http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 :

LP-PHY devices: DMA errors on some machines with kernel 2.6. Problem was fixed in 3.0. Using PIO (module param) can be used as workaround for 2.6.

The bug was fixed in 3.0 kernel. Solutions for you: 1) Update kernel in your openSUSE to 3.0 or newer 2) Install still-experimental-for-now openSUSE 12.1 3) Do "rmmod b43 && modprobe b43 pio=1" as root -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656642#c19 Jiri Slaby changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #19 from Jiri Slaby 2011-09-18 17:47:24 UTC --- . -- 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.