Feature changed by: Mariusz Fik (Fisiu) Feature #306619, revision 17 Title: open firmware for some broadcom wifi cards openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mariusz Fik (fisiu) Description: It could be fine to ship openSUSE 11.2 with open firmware for broadcom wifi cards. Then, some cards will work out-of-box. For this chips currently unsupported we still have "install_bcm43xx_firmware". Known supported boards until now: 4306, 4311(rev1), 4318 and 4320 http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ (http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/) Discussion: #1: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2009-07-10 12:13:31) Jiri, can we add this? #6: Axel Braun (docb) (2009-07-13 23:02:51) Open firmware is as well available for some prism chipsets, see prism54. org #9: Drew Kwashnak (dragonbite) (2010-01-08 17:28:30) Fedora 12 includes OpenFWWF and my broadcom BCM 4309 was detected out of the box. Also, it has had a better connection than the regular method (fwcutter) and comparable or superios to Windows all on the same box. I have not had a dropped connection yet, while the fwcutter does every so often. This would greatly enhance the "out-of-the-box" experience as well as promote the open source options over the current proprietary method. Also agree, the existing method can be in place for those that are not supported. #10: Mariusz Fik (fisiu) (2010-03-23 14:30:11) Any chance to include it into openSUSE 11.3? #11: Rastislav Krupansky (ra100) (2010-03-23 21:51:28) If OpenFWWF works "out-of-the-box" and it has better connection than b43, i vote for this feature. Why isn´t yet included in openSUSE? We have to still use "install_bcm43xx_firmware" command for working wifi, and i don´t know, whether there is progress in bug 554823 - automate b43-fwcutter. + #12: Mariusz Fik (fisiu) (2010-03-24 04:25:46) + I did an initial package for openSUSE 11.2 and Factory. It's available + in my home repo in noarch: + http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Fisiu/ + (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Fisiu/) + Package is named 'b43-openfwwf'. b43-tools is needed only to build + firmware so it's not published. + + All suggestions are welcome :) + If You think this package is good enough I'll make a request for + Factory oss. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306619