http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1175038 Bug ID: 1175038 Summary: Reinstalling bcm20702a1-firmware-1201650-5.1.noarch seems to remove the *.hcd files Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: Current Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Network Assignee: screening-team-bugs@suse.de Reporter: nick.chorley@gmail.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: ---

From dmesg, I found that the firmware for my device couldn't be found and was lead to believe it was provided by the package above. My system already had it installed, but the files were not present in /lib/firmware/brcm. I don't know how my system got into this state and figuring that the installation went wrong somehow, I decided to try and reinstall with

# zypper in -f bcm20702a1-firmware-1201650-5.1.noarch This looked like it was successful, the output ending with Converting BCM_DriverOnly/64/BCM20702A1_001.002.014.1443.1467.hex to BCM20702A1-0b05-17cb.hcd Converting BCM_DriverOnly/64/BCM20702A1_001.002.014.1443.1469.hex to BCM20702A1-0b05-17cf.hcd Converting BCM_DriverOnly/64/BCM20702A1_001.002.014.1483.1647.hex to BCM20702A1-05ac-21e1.hcd Converting BCM_DriverOnly/64/BCM20702A1_001.002.014.1483.1669.hex to BCM20702A1-0a5c-21e6.hcd Converting BCM_DriverOnly/64/BCM20702A1_001.002.014.1443.1467.hex to BCM20702A1-050d-065a.hcd but after completion, the firmware files were still not present in /lib/firmware/brcm. Over on the openSUSE forums, someone told me that the installation script unconditionally removes the files in its post-uninstall step and that that is always run on update (see the thread here: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/542851-Problem-reinstalling-bcm20...). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.