Hi Kevin, On 10/13/2012 10:46 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hi, > It could be that I am missing something. > I tried building the firmware as explained here. > Under b43_v4.6 one firmware (extension fw) file > is created, named: ucode5.fw. Isn't version 5.2 the latest open firmware for these broadcom devices? Why are you using version 4.6? > I have LinkSys WRTG54GL with backfire (10.03.x). You could also build your own OpenWrt image and select the open firmware in menuconfig. Then you do not have to do it yourself. I do not know if this option is available in backfire, but it should work in trunk. > I am using b43 driver. > > I ran: > insmod b43.ko > and got: > b43-phy0: Broadcom 5352 WLAN found (core revision 9) > phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel' > Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: P, Firmware-ID: FW13 ] > > which seems OK. > > Now I copied ucode5.fw to: > /lib/firmware/b43 on the device. > > I run:ucode5.fw > hostapd /etc/hostapd. > > I get this message in the kernel log: > > b43 ssb0:3: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw > b43 ssb0:3: firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw > b43 ssb0:3: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw > b43 ssb0:3: firmware: requesting b43-open/ucode5.fw > b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/b0g0initvals5.fw" not found > b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found > b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and > download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please > carefully read all instructions on this website. > > > > Now, I noticed two things: > 1) it asks also for other firmware files. Isn't the ucode5.fw > file the only one needed ? You also need the initivals (b0g0bsinitvals5.fw and b0g0initvals5.fw) in addition to the firmware itself (ucode5.fw). > 2) It also looks for "b43-open" folder, not only for "b43". OpenWrt takes b43 from compat-wireless, so OpenWrt 10.03.1 contains b43 from round about a year ago and not from kernel version 2.6.32.27. This version searches in b43-open for the open source firmware and not in b43. > Could it be that the driver I am using is not updated and > does not support this OpenFWWF firmware ? > (backfire has 2.6.32.27 kernel). > > Or should there be some additional firmware from somewhere else ? > > rgs, > Kevin > > > On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Michael Büsch <m@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:27:55 -0500 >> Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> That repo was converted from HTTP to GIT form some time ago. The correct request is >>> >>> git clone git://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git >>> >>> It appears, however, the git.bu3sch.de is down. >> >> The bu3sch.de domain is no longer registered (by me). All services are available >> under bues.ch now. >> >> git clone git://git.bues.ch/git/b43-tools.git >> >> -- >> Greetings, Michael. >> >> PGP encryption is encouraged / 908D8B0E > -- > 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 > -- 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
