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On 02/17/14 18:37, Arend van Spriel wrote:
On 02/17/14 17:52, Bernd Wagener wrote:
Am 17.02.2014 17:33, schrieb Samuel Ortiz:
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:06:40PM +0100, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
Hi Arend,

I'm trying to use a 43241 SDIO chip here, and it fails asking for the
.txt file (brcmfmac43241b4-sdio.txt). This seems to be an NVRAM map
file, but I could not find either a template on linux-firmware or any
kind of documentation about it.

How do distro handle that ? Are they expected to build their own, or is
it completely OEM pecific ?
Adding Franky to the Cc list.

Cheers,
Samuel.

Hi Samuel,
I had the same proble with a wandboard here and I guess it's a bug. In
/lib/firmware/brcm are all reqired *.bin files, but no *.txt file. On
www.wandboard.or I found a SDK-Kit with brcmfmac4329-sdio.txt, copied
the file and then the wlan was running.
The *.txt are simply forgotten to copy to the firmware directory.
No idea how to fix this.

Hi Bernd,

The hint to solve this is found on wireless.kernel.org [1] and the
answer is as Samuel suspects. This file is very board specific so OEMs
manufacturing/selling the board should provide it either upon request or
through some distribution like a SDK. Because of the nature of the file
we do not put it on linux-firmware although people like yourself can get
lucky trying ;-)

forgot:

[1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211

Regards,
Arend
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