A small error in b43

[Larry Finger]

On 04/07/2011 03:09 PM, Gregory Bellier wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I would like to test the b43 driver for a BCM4322. I tried with 2.6.38.2 and
> 2.6.39-rc2 but I'm stuck with a firmware error in dmesg :
> [ 75.922582] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode16_mimo.fw" not found
> [ 75.922587] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode16_mimo.fw" not found
> [ 75.922590] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the
> correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions
> on this website.
>
> I have b43-fwcutter v13.
>
> # b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/wl_apsta.o
> This file is recognised as:
> ID : FW15
> filename : wl_apsta.o
> version : 478.104
> MD5 : bb8537e3204a1ea5903fe3e66b5e2763
> Extracting b43/ucode5.fw
> Extracting b43/pcm5.fw
> Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
> Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals5.fw
> Extracting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
> Extracting b43/a0g1initvals5.fw
> Extracting b43/a0g0initvals5.fw
> Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals5.fw
> Extracting b43/ucode9.fw
> Extracting b43/a0g1initvals9.fw
> Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals9.fw
> Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals9.fw
> Extracting b43/b0g0initvals9.fw
> Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals9.fw
> Extracting b43/a0g0initvals9.fw
> Extracting b43/ucode11.fw
> Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals11.fw
> Extracting b43/n0absinitvals11.fw
> Extracting b43/n0initvals11.fw
> Extracting b43/ucode13.fw
> Extracting b43/b0g0initvals13.fw
> Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals13.fw
> Extracting b43/a0g1initvals13.fw
> Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals13.fw
> Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals13.fw
> Extracting b43/lp0initvals13.fw
> Extracting b43/ucode14.fw
> Extracting b43/lp0initvals14.fw
> Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals14.fw
> Extracting b43/ucode15.fw
> Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw
> Extracting b43/lp0initvals15.fw
> Extracting b43/ucode16.fw
> Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals16.fw
> Extracting b43/sslpn0initvals16.fw
> Extracting b43/n0initvals16.fw
> Extracting b43/lp0initvals16.fw
> Extracting b43/sslpn0bsinitvals16.fw
> Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals16.fw
>
> Did I miss something ? I promise I read carefully.
>
> Sorry, I wrote this email in several times. I finally did a symlink in
> /lib/firmware/b43 : # sudo ln -s ucode16.fw ucode16_mimo.fw
> And it worked like this.

I'm not sure if those two firmware files are equivalent or not.

There is a new version of b43-fwcutter in the git repository at 
git://git.bu3sch.de/b43-tools.git that knows how to extract the firmware from 
URL http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3_mipsel.tar.bz2. 
After untarring, the object file is
broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3/driver/wl_apsta/wl_prebuilt.o

Larry