Return-path: Received: from mail-ua0-f171.google.com ([209.85.217.171]:33168 "EHLO mail-ua0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1034692AbcIWSq3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:46:29 -0400 Received: by mail-ua0-f171.google.com with SMTP id u68so54653733uau.0 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:46:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: David Petrizze Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:45:58 -0600 Message-ID: (sfid-20160923_204633_392793_7F1882EF) Subject: Re: Broadcom Firmware Rollback To: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I see. I guess I was hoping for some sort of mishap i.e. replacing 6.20 with 6.30 without thinking. If it wasn't released, I'll keep working on compiling the Ubuntu driver I did find. Thanks again On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:48 PM, Rafa=C5=82 Mi=C5=82ecki wrote: > On 23 September 2016 at 04:43, David Petrizze wrote= : >> I'm having issues with broadcom's latest firmware / driver, version >> 6.30.163.46. Wireless is solid for about a minute, and then drops >> completely. My research has led me to believe my chip (BCM4331) is no >> longer supported under 6.30.X.X, or has a bug somewhere. I want to >> roll back to the firmware that worked. >> >> What I'm looking for is a file named broadcom-wl-6.20.*.*.tar.bz2. I >> found my current firmware from http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/, >> but 6.20.X.X is nowhere to be found. 5.100.X.X is there, but the 4331 >> definitely wasn't supported for that one. >> >> Inside each of these archives on lwfinger is a file called wl_apsta.o, >> where the firmware is extracted from. Since b43-fwcutter only >> extracts firmware from versions of wl_apsta.o that match specific >> MD5's, I figure 6.20.X.X has to be out there somewhere. >> >> More info can be found from my original post: >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=3D217326 >> >> ...and other people confrim 6.30.X.X being a problem in this ubuntu bug: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1189611 >> >> If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would be immensely gr= ateful. > > You can't make proprietary driver using firmware of your choice, so > don't bother looking at MIPS drivers stored at Larry's server. > > You just need to find a /complete/ (mostly closed source of course) > driver 6.20 for x86/x86_64. I don't think it was ever published on > Broadcom's site, I think it was made available to Ubuntu only under > some agreement. So keep looking at Ubuntu resources. > > Also linux-wireless ML focuses on open source drivers, so you may have > more luck asking at Ubuntu community. > > -- > Rafa=C5=82