problem with b43

[Gábor Stefanik]

2010/9/24 John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:06:17PM +0200, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Cyrille <cyrille at cbiot.fr> 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
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