On 23 September 2016 at 04:43, David Petrizze <dpetrizze@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm having issues with broadcom's latest firmware / driver, version > 6.30.163.46. Wireless is solid for about a minute, and then drops > completely. My research has led me to believe my chip (BCM4331) is no > longer supported under 6.30.X.X, or has a bug somewhere. I want to > roll back to the firmware that worked. > > What I'm looking for is a file named broadcom-wl-6.20.*.*.tar.bz2. I > found my current firmware from http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/, > but 6.20.X.X is nowhere to be found. 5.100.X.X is there, but the 4331 > definitely wasn't supported for that one. > > Inside each of these archives on lwfinger is a file called wl_apsta.o, > where the firmware is extracted from. Since b43-fwcutter only > extracts firmware from versions of wl_apsta.o that match specific > MD5's, I figure 6.20.X.X has to be out there somewhere. > > More info can be found from my original post: > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=217326 > > ...and other people confrim 6.30.X.X being a problem in this ubuntu bug: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1189611 > > If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would be immensely grateful. You can't make proprietary driver using firmware of your choice, so don't bother looking at MIPS drivers stored at Larry's server. You just need to find a /complete/ (mostly closed source of course) driver 6.20 for x86/x86_64. I don't think it was ever published on Broadcom's site, I think it was made available to Ubuntu only under some agreement. So keep looking at Ubuntu resources. Also linux-wireless ML focuses on open source drivers, so you may have more luck asking at Ubuntu community. -- Rafał
