Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:62173 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752438Ab0IXRbR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:31:17 -0400 Received: by qyk36 with SMTP id 36so1607022qyk.19 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:31:17 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100924172132.GC8077@tuxdriver.com> References: <20100924185551.e3c3b41c.cyrille@cbiot.fr> <20100924172132.GC8077@tuxdriver.com> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:30:56 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: problem with b43 To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Cyrille , b43-dev@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2010/9/24 John W. Linville : > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:06:17PM +0200, G?bor Stefanik wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Cyrille 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@tuxdriver.com ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?might be all we have. ?Be ready. > -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-)