[Bug 204826] New: Bcm43xx driver needs non-oss firmware
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 Summary: Bcm43xx driver needs non-oss firmware Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Alpha 4 Platform: 32bit OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: martin.schlander@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de A feature much anticipated by many in 10.2 is the bcm43xx kernel driver. To work this driver needs firmware - which appears to be non-oss. It would be great if this firmware could delivered on cd6/dvd/non-oss-inst-source for 10.2. Ubuntu have a firmware package in their Universe repo, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Dapper#head-91813a... Here's a thread on the mailinglist that discusses this issue a bit: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2006-09/msg00350.html -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 sbrabec@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |sbrabec@novell.com ------- Comment #3 from sbrabec@novell.com 2006-10-11 10:09 MST ------- It is also possible to package fwcutter (even on DVD) with an additional script, which can fetch Windows driver from any official web site (or windows installation/bundled driver disc), extract and install firmware files. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 kernel01@hailfinger.org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kernel01@hailfinger.org ------- Comment #5 from kernel01@hailfinger.org 2006-11-04 13:36 MST ------- sbrabec: Do you have time to write such a script? -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 wearabnet@yahoo.ca changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |wearabnet@yahoo.ca ------- Comment #6 from wearabnet@yahoo.ca 2006-11-06 06:13 MST ------- Anyone could help with this? -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 jg@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED ------- Comment #7 from jg@novell.com 2006-11-06 06:20 MST ------- FYI: I've now packaged bcm43xx. I will also add a script for installing the firmware (similar to those we already have in wireless-tools for some other drivers). -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 ------- Comment #8 from wearabnet@yahoo.ca 2006-11-06 07:50 MST ------- I hope you'll make it for 64 bits for us as well, please check bug 217683 -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 ------- Comment #9 from jg@novell.com 2006-11-06 08:20 MST ------- I can't imagine the firmware files being depended of the CPU architecture, because the firmware is run inside the card, not on the host CPU. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 ------- Comment #10 from wearabnet@yahoo.ca 2006-11-06 12:54 MST ------- Good news, thank you. When could we see this sorted out? next release? -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 jg@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Comment #11 from jg@novell.com 2006-11-13 06:31 MST ------- It did not made it into Beta2, but should be available in FACTORY now. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 ------- Comment #12 from wearabnet@yahoo.ca 2006-11-14 04:02 MST ------- Great stuff thank you! How can I get it from Factory? -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 ------- Comment #13 from wearabnet@yahoo.ca 2006-11-14 04:03 MST ------- *** Bug 217683 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 ------- Comment #14 from jg@novell.com 2006-11-14 06:10 MST ------- FACTORY inst-source is here: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source... -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 wearabnet@yahoo.ca changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|FIXED | ------- Comment #15 from wearabnet@yahoo.ca 2006-11-15 11:39 MST ------- Hello Joachim, I have installed fresh install based on 32bits not 64bits then installed the rpm from the factory. Here what I get in the boot log klogd 1.4.1, log source = ksyslog started. <5>Linux version 2.6.18.2-4-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061101 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Tue Nov 7 16:02:06 UTC 2006 <6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map: <4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009dc00 (usable) <4> BIOS-e820: 000000000009dc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) <4> BIOS-e820: 00000000000d0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) <4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000057e90000 (usable) <4> BIOS-e820: 0000000057e90000 - 0000000057e9a000 (ACPI data) <4> BIOS-e820: 0000000057e9a000 - 0000000057f00000 (ACPI NVS) <4> BIOS-e820: 0000000057f00000 - 0000000060000000 (reserved) <4> BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) <4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) <4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) <4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) <4>ieee80211: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. <6>bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2 <6>bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4 <6>bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243, enabled <6>bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, disabled <6>bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x804, rev 0xc, vendor 0x4243, enabled <6>bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x80d, rev 0x7, vendor 0x4243, enabled <6>bcm43xx: PHY connected <6>bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 3, Type 2, Revision 7 <6>bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 8205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 8) <6>bcm43xx: Radio turned off <6>bcm43xx: Radio turned off Here what I get in /var/log/messages too Nov 15 20:13:29 Acer5102WLMi firmware.sh[7977]: Cannot find firmware file 'bcm43xx_microcode5.fw' Nov 15 20:13:29 Acer5102WLMi zmd: NetworkStatus (WARN): Network has been disconnected Nov 15 20:13:29 Acer5102WLMi zmd: NetworkStatus (WARN): Network has been disconnected Nov 15 20:13:29 Acer5102WLMi zmd: NetworkStatus (WARN): Network has been disconnected Nov 15 20:13:30 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed. Nov 15 20:13:30 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2) Nov 15 20:13:30 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed. Nov 15 20:13:30 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2) Nov 15 20:13:30 Acer5102WLMi kernel: SoftMAC: Canceling existing associate request! Nov 15 20:13:30 Acer5102WLMi kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first. Nov 15 20:13:30 Acer5102WLMi kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up? Nov 15 20:13:30 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 Nov 15 20:13:33 Acer5102WLMi zmd: Daemon (WARN): Not starting remote web server Nov 15 20:13:53 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed. Nov 15 20:13:53 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2) Nov 15 20:13:53 Acer5102WLMi firmware.sh[8541]: Cannot find firmware file 'bcm43xx_microcode5.fw' Nov 15 20:14:17 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed. Nov 15 20:14:17 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2) Nov 15 20:14:17 Acer5102WLMi firmware.sh[8702]: Cannot find firmware file 'bcm43xx_microcode5.fw' Nov 15 20:14:29 Acer5102WLMi kernel: SoftMAC: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at: net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:306:ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate() Nov 15 20:14:41 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed. Nov 15 20:14:41 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2) Nov 15 20:14:41 Acer5102WLMi firmware.sh[8888]: Cannot find firmware file 'bcm43xx_microcode5.fw' Nov 15 20:15:06 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed. Nov 15 20:15:06 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2) Nov 15 20:15:06 Acer5102WLMi firmware.sh[8938]: Cannot find firmware file 'bcm43xx_microcode5.fw' Nov 15 20:15:21 Acer5102WLMi su: (to beagleindex) root on none Nov 15 20:15:30 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed. Nov 15 20:15:30 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2) Nov 15 20:15:30 Acer5102WLMi firmware.sh[8957]: Cannot find firmware file 'bcm43xx_microcode5.fw' Nov 15 20:17:34 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed. Nov 15 20:17:34 Acer5102WLMi kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2) Nov 15 20:17:34 Acer5102WLMi firmware.sh[9032]: Cannot find firmware file 'bcm43xx_microcode5.fw' Am I missing something? Thank you, -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 jg@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Comment #16 from jg@novell.com 2006-11-16 03:30 MST ------- The bcm43xx-fwcutter package does not contain the firmware, just a tool to extract it from a Windows driver file (see 'man bcm43xx-fwcutter' and /usr/share/doc/packages/bcm43xx-fwcutter/README). There is a script which tries to do this for you, called install_bcm43xx_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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 ------- Comment #17 from wearabnet@yahoo.ca 2006-11-16 03:40 MST ------- Greetings Joachim, Here is very interesting thread about the Acer laptops only. http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280962 ## ******************** ONLY FOR ACER USERS ******************** #install acer_acpi to turn on wireless adapter through software #this is the only package that will be manually installed #as it will be compiled, it works on 32-bit and 64-bit systems whereas acerhk #only works on 32-bit systems AFAIK #when upgrading kernel, make sure to re-compile/re-install acer_acpi in the new kernel wget http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi-0.3.tar.gz tar -xvf acer_acpi-0.3.tar.gz cd acer_acpi-0.3 sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-kernel-headers linux-headers-$arch linux-headers-´uname -r´ make sudo make install echo 'acer_acpi' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules echo 'pre-up /etc/network/StartAcerWireless' | sudo tee -a /etc/network/interfaces sudo touch /etc/network/StartAcerWireless echo 'chmod 777 /proc/acpi/acer/wireless' | sudo tee -a /etc/network/StartAcerWireless echo 'echo "enabled: 1" > /proc/acpi/acer/wireless' | sudo tee -a /etc/network/StartAcerWireless echo 'iwconfig eth1 ap any' | sudo tee -a /etc/network/StartAcerWireless sudo chmod 754 /etc/network/StartAcerWireless ## ************************************************** *********** Start GDM and from the menu, go to System|Preferences|Sessions|Startup Programs, click the Add button and write in: nm-applet –sm-disable reboot PC When rebooted, left-click on nm-applet and choose to “connect to other wireless network” even if your AP is visible. Write in the SSID, choose WEP or WPA and enter the password. Upon connecting nm-applet will ask for a master password for the wallet. Choose something simple. ---- So is this related to this bug or shall I submit a new bug? Thank you, -Abdullah -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 ------- Comment #18 from jg@novell.com 2006-11-16 04:03 MST ------- This has nothing to do with the firmware. And there is already a bug regarding lack of ACPI support for Acer and co. (see bug 161760) -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 jg@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |suse@bout-tyme.net ------- Comment #19 from jg@novell.com 2006-11-20 04:42 MST ------- *** Bug 204757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 ------- Comment #20 from zajec5@gmail.com 2007-03-14 10:42 MST ------- Script install_bcm43xx_firmware works fine - it installs firmware for me. The problem is that I had to use eth0 to get access to the internet and run this script. Is it possible to include firmware in openSUSE by default, without additional downloading it by script? I think it would be nice to have working wlan card just after installing system. Current solution is not really comfortable. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 ------- Comment #21 from jg@novell.com 2007-03-14 10:50 MST ------- No, we cannot, sorry. Redistribution of the firmware is not possible due to legal reasons. And even if it was, it's not open source anyway, but this is a requirement for inclusion in openSUSE. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 ------- Comment #22 from sbrabec@novell.com 2007-03-15 08:12 MST ------- Ideally, one should be warned _before_ starting to install (imagine you are replacing Windows and you will end without any connection). Installation process should inform user, that downloading of firmware will be required before WLAN card will start to work or user have to download firmware manually, put it somewhere and then continue. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204826 behlert@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |CLOSED -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
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