On 08/18/2017 05:34 PM, don fisher wrote:
I have tried many different approaches to getting my wireless device working. It is a Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 as the system shows below:
lspci -vnn -d 14e4: 0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1490 Dual Band WLAN Mini-Card [1028:0007] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 Memory at fe8fc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge Kernel modules: ssb, wl
The error messages shown in dmesg are: b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43/pcm5.fw failed with error -2 b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43/b0g0initvals5.fw failed with error -2 b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode5.fw failed with error -2 b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode5.fw failed with error -2 b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/b0g0initvals5.fw" not found b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
But if I look in the directory /lib/firmware I find 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3K Aug 18 14:39 /lib/firmware/b43//pcm5.fw 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Aug 18 14:39 /lib/firmware/b43/b0g0initvals5.fw 24K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22K Aug 18 14:39 /lib/firmware/b43-open/ucode5.fw
My quick look at Google indicates error -2 is: /* No such file or directory */
Noe the suse distribution did not provide the directory b43-open, so I added a symbolic link to the directyory where the ucode5.fw was loaded. b43-open -> b43legacy/
I do not know what to do next. The error message all start with b43, and I assume the correct preface is /lib/firmware. If that is correct I cannot see what is wrong.
Any ideas? I am probably making some dumb simple error, but I cannot see it. Don
It's a bitch to get Broadcom devices to work in Linux, but I have discovered that if you install Mint 17 LTS, it will work out of the box! --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org