https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801681 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801681#c1 --- Comment #1 from sayth renshaw 2013-02-01 10:23:09 UTC --- Tested live Beta image of KDE. Booted into KDE desktop and no wireless networks available. -- 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=801681 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801681#c3 Larry Finger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net --- Comment #3 from Larry Finger 2013-02-13 17:24:26 UTC --- Without the PCI ID, your device details are not that helpful. I do not have a BCM43225 so I cannot check, but http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 shows that device to have the ID of 14e4:4357 and that the driver is brcmsmac. What does the dmesg output show about the device? Anything about missing firmware? -- 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=801681 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801681#c sayth renshaw changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version|RC 1 |RC 2 -- 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=801681 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801681#c6 Larry Finger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #6 from Larry Finger 2013-03-06 15:57:01 UTC --- This is not a bug. Broadcom's rules prevent anyone from redistributing their firmware files. Fortunately, many of their drivers such as wl, those for Windows, and the code used in access points build the firmware into the driver. Linux rules prevent this. The script '/usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware', which is included in the distro, downloads one of these foreign drivers and extracts the firmware into a form that Linux uses. This process is totally legal. Of course, this is a chicken-and-egg problem as you need the network to install the firmware, but there is no wireless without it. One workaround is to backup the files in /lib/firmware/b43/ from an working system onto a USB stick or CD, and then use that backup as the source of the necessary files for a new installation. I do not know what Fedora does; however, all distros are forbidden to distribute the firmware. Perhaps they ignore that prohibition, which I doubt, or they might include one of those foreign drivers so that the firmware can be extracted without having an active network. The downside is that one must include about 12 MB of stuff in order to extract 0.5 MB of what is needed. As the openSUSE developers are always fighting the problem of releases that are too large for the media, that does not seem like the way to go. As you may have noted, the 12.3 live media are now 900 MB, much too large for a CD, and the RC2 DVD iso would not fit on DVD+R media. -- 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.