Try to put firmware in /lib/firmware/ instead of /lib/firmware/brcm/ which is the located in the git tree, but NOT necessarily the location the driver is looking for. -----Original Message----- From: Chen, Xianwen [mailto:xianwen.chen@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:43 AM To: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Larry Finger; Rafał Miłecki; Chaoxing Lin; Brett Rudley Subject: Re: Status of Broadcom 4353? Thanks a lot Chaoxing, Larry and Rafal, I installed the Linux firmware (20110128), as you can see by 'ls /lib/firmware/brcm/ -l' total 368 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 269595 Mar 11 16:57 bcm4329-fullmac-4-218-248-5.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1604 Mar 11 16:57 bcm4329-fullmac-4-218-248-5.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97376 Mar 11 16:57 bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180 Mar 11 16:57 bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw However, after rebooting and even after recompiling and rebooting the kernel, the wireless adapter doesn't yet show up. Hence, I decide to give more details on the problem, to see if something is missing: (1) The Dell Latitude E5410 is running Gentoo AMD64 with all packages up to date. (2) The latest 2.6.38-rc8 kernel is used. (3) The kernel config can be seen at http://pastebin.com/ExAzLHr8. (4) The dmesg is uploaded to http://pastebin.com/wV3Wp54r. (5) The output from lspci is at http://pastebin.com/Giqs7kkA. Any thoughts, please? Xianwen 2011/3/11 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx>: > 2011/3/11 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> On 03/11/2011 09:05 AM, Chen, Xianwen wrote: >>> >>> Thanks a lot guys! >>> >>> I revisited http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211, but >>> did not find the firmware. Am I missing something? >> >> The firmware is in the linux-firmware tree. You probably need to install the >> latest package for your distro called "linux firmware" or "kernel firmware". >> Otherwise >> >> git clone >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git >> >> The files you need will be in linux-firmware/brcm. Copy them to >> /lib/firmware/brcm. > > Or just use web gui :) > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=brcm;h=883e5732daa040c3c7d39b179c4b4b750db354cd;hb=HEAD > > -- > Rafał > -- 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
