[Bug 467892] New: b43-phy0: warning: You are using an old firmware image. Support for old firmware will be removed in July 2008.
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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467892 Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version|RC 2 |Final -- 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=467892 Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OS/Version|Other |openSUSE 11.1 -- 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=467892 User Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467892#c1 --- Comment #1 from Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> 2009-01-21 03:37:29 MST --- Created an attachment (id=266462) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=266462) hwinfo --wlan -- 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=467892 User Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467892#c2 --- Comment #2 from Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> 2009-01-26 00:38:08 MST --- The problem seems to be that the kernel message about "loading firmware" is actually not telling the truth: After a reboot a different firmware was loaded: Jan 23 17:43:24 delle-800 kernel: input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input8 Jan 23 17:43:24 delle-800 kernel: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw Jan 23 17:43:24 delle-800 kernel: firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw Jan 23 17:43:24 delle-800 kernel: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw Jan 23 17:43:24 delle-800 kernel: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw Jan 23 17:43:24 delle-800 nm-system-settings: Adding default connection 'Auto eth0' for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_11_43_72_05_92 Jan 23 17:43:24 delle-800 kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10) A non-related problem is that the kernel periodically created new devices when no WLAN is available: [...] Jan 23 18:02:56 delle-800 kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10) Jan 23 18:02:56 delle-800 kernel: Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx Jan 23 18:02:56 delle-800 kernel: Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx Jan 23 18:02:56 delle-800 kernel: Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio Jan 23 18:02:56 delle-800 kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready Jan 23 18:03:09 delle-800 kernel: input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input22 Jan 23 18:03:09 delle-800 kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10) Jan 23 18:03:09 delle-800 kernel: Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx Jan 23 18:03:09 delle-800 kernel: Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx Jan 23 18:03:09 delle-800 kernel: Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio Jan 23 18:03:09 delle-800 kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready Jan 23 18:03:21 delle-800 kernel: input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input23 Jan 23 18:03:21 delle-800 kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10) [...] -- 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=467892 Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |kernel-maintainers@forge.pr |ovo.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=467892 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|kernel-maintainers@forge.pr |jbenc@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=467892 Jiri Benc <jbenc@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low Status|NEW |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=467892 User jbenc@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467892#c3 Jiri Benc <jbenc@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensb | |urg.de --- Comment #3 from Jiri Benc <jbenc@novell.com> 2009-02-26 12:34:48 MST --- What's the current status? Does the driver randomly pick up 351.126 and 410.2160 version? Or was it the case just after the installation of the firmware and since the first reboot it has been working correctly? Does the problem with repeated creation of new devices still happen? If so, could you please append output of ifconfig -a and iwconfig commands and full dmesg log (output of 'dmesg' command) after the bug is triggered? -- 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=467892 User Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467892#c4 Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensb | |urg.de | --- Comment #4 from Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> 2009-02-27 01:42:55 MST --- The new firmware is now loaded, but confusingly the "b43-phy0: Loading firmware .." message leaves the impression that the firmware is actually loaded from disk (where in fact it doesn't seem to be the case; at least it doesn't pick the new one). After a reboot (maybe another trick would also do?) the newer firmware files are used. The problem with repeated creation of new devices seems to be gone. The final confusing message is about "Support for old firmware will be removed in July 2008."; a time definitely before openSUSE 11.1 was released. So either the support would be gone already, or the date is wrong. -- 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=467892 User jbenc@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467892#c5 Jiri Benc <jbenc@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #5 from Jiri Benc <jbenc@novell.com> 2009-02-27 07:59:54 MST --- (In reply to comment #4)
The new firmware is now loaded, but confusingly the "b43-phy0: Loading firmware ..." message leaves the impression that the firmware is actually loaded from disk (where in fact it doesn't seem to be the case; at least it doesn't pick the new one). After a reboot (maybe another trick would also do?) the newer firmware files are used.
If you are talking about the situation just after the new firmware was installed, then yes, a reboot (or rmmod/modprobe b43) is needed. That's caused by an optimalization in the driver, otherwise it would load the firmware unnecessarily often, causing noticeable slowdowns.
The problem with repeated creation of new devices seems to be gone.
Okay. If it happens again, please collect the information suggested in comment 3 and open a new bug.
The final confusing message is about "Support for old firmware will be removed in July 2008."; a time definitely before openSUSE 11.1 was released. So either the support would be gone already, or the date is wrong.
The date is wrong. The support is still there, even in the latest mainline. The comment is already changed there, so it won't be so confusing in openSUSE 11.2. As both problems appear to be just a bad documentation (updating the firmware without reboot is not really supported, the confusing message will be fixed in 11.2), closing as WONTFIX. Feel free to edit the upstream wiki page (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware). -- 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.
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