2010/9/24 John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:06:17PM +0200, Gábor Stefanik wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Cyrille <cyrille@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Hi >> > I've got a problem with a broadcom 4312 [12e4:4315]. >> > The environment : >> > =========================== >> > uname -a >> > 2.6.35.5-libre.29.fc14.x86_64 > >> > Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMLS, Firmware-ID: FW13 ] >> > ssb0:0: Missing Free firmware >> > b43-phy4 ERROR: Rejected non-Free firmware >> > ssb0:0: Missing Free firmware >> > b43-phy4 ERROR: Rejected non-Free firmware >> >> Compile compat-wireless to bypass the "free-only" patch in Fedora. >> >> (John, are you still maintaining the Fedora kernel's wireless part? If >> so, please kill this "freedom enforcement"!) > > This isn't a Fedora kernel. I'm guessing it is from "Free-dora" > by way of BLAG, and I have no control over it -- sorry. > > Cyrille, did you try b43-openfwwf? If that doesn't work, then you > will need to use extracted proprietary firmware with some other kernel > (e.g. stock Fedora) or you will have to live without b43. OpenFWWF definitely won't work with LP-PHYs. We don't even know enough about LP-PHY to fix the DMA error, let alone to write our own firmware... > > John > -- > John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you > linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. > -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
