Return-path: Received: from mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.63]:10851 "EHLO mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751622AbaBQRin (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:38:43 -0500 Message-ID: <53024920.8010104@broadcom.com> (sfid-20140217_183846_323522_E17D0DAD) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:38:40 +0100 From: Arend van Spriel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernd Wagener CC: Samuel Ortiz , Linux Wireless , Subject: Re: brcmfmac NVRAM files References: <20140217150640.GJ18868@zurbaran> <20140217163315.GA22010@zurbaran> <53023E51.90202@Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <530248DD.1050408@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <530248DD.1050408@broadcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/17/14 18:37, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On 02/17/14 17:52, Bernd Wagener wrote: >> Am 17.02.2014 17:33, schrieb Samuel Ortiz: >>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:06:40PM +0100, Samuel Ortiz wrote: >>>> Hi Arend, >>>> >>>> I'm trying to use a 43241 SDIO chip here, and it fails asking for the >>>> .txt file (brcmfmac43241b4-sdio.txt). This seems to be an NVRAM map >>>> file, but I could not find either a template on linux-firmware or any >>>> kind of documentation about it. >>>> >>>> How do distro handle that ? Are they expected to build their own, or is >>>> it completely OEM pecific ? >>> Adding Franky to the Cc list. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Samuel. >>> >> Hi Samuel, >> I had the same proble with a wandboard here and I guess it's a bug. In >> /lib/firmware/brcm are all reqired *.bin files, but no *.txt file. On >> www.wandboard.or I found a SDK-Kit with brcmfmac4329-sdio.txt, copied >> the file and then the wlan was running. >> The *.txt are simply forgotten to copy to the firmware directory. >> No idea how to fix this. > > Hi Bernd, > > The hint to solve this is found on wireless.kernel.org [1] and the > answer is as Samuel suspects. This file is very board specific so OEMs > manufacturing/selling the board should provide it either upon request or > through some distribution like a SDK. Because of the nature of the file > we do not put it on linux-firmware although people like yourself can get > lucky trying ;-) forgot: [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211 > Regards, > Arend > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html