I see. I guess I was hoping for some sort of mishap i.e. replacing 6.20 with 6.30 without thinking. If it wasn't released, I'll keep working on compiling the Ubuntu driver I did find. Thanks again On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:48 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
