Return-path: Received: from mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.63]:32090 "EHLO mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751296AbbCNTyE (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Mar 2015 15:54:04 -0400 Message-ID: <550491DA.6030105@broadcom.com> (sfid-20150314_205408_534931_D8C2A452) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 20:54:02 +0100 From: Arend van Spriel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ochal Christophe CC: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Broadcom 43340 References: <550482A2.3080803@gmail.com> <55048833.90408@broadcom.com> <55048BB1.9080906@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55048BB1.9080906@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: + linux-wireless On 03/14/15 20:27, Ochal Christophe wrote: > Dear Sir, > > On 03/14/2015 08:12 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote: >> The nvram file is board specific and so Asus should be able to provide >> that. What OS does Asus provide on this eee book? The firmware file >> will be submitted to linux-firmware soon, but in the mean time you can >> also find it in Android repository [1]. Just rename the file >> fw_43341.bin to brcmfmac43340-sdio.bin. >> >> Regards, >> Arend >> >> [1] >> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/broadcom/wlan/+/master/bcmdhd/firmware/bcm43341/ >> > > Thank you for the link, the Asus eebook x205ta comes with Windows 8.1, > no idea how I'm going to get Asus to deliver that nvram, but at least > I'm halfway there now, the firmware loads correctly. For Windows 8.1 the nvram file is stored in EFI variable space. This is accessible in Linux as well. If I recall correctly it should be in /sys/firmware/efi/efivars. There should be a file named nvram-*. Copy that to /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43340-sdio.txt. Regards, Arend