On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 5:21 PM Peter Bowden <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks Peter. I did figure that out yesterday. Symlink seemed to work. I also 
> pulled in 
> https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree/blob/master/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt
>  as well.

Well you should do one of those or the other but not both.

> I did run into issues with wifi, but I'd like to test when the upstream is 
> patched.

It literally just symlinks them together, I've sent the patch and it's
been ACKed, so should be in the next release in a week or so.

>
> Pete Bowden
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>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 4:19 AM Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Taking a stab at fedora 32 on a R Pi 3A+. Looks like there's missing 
>> > firmware. Based on the FAQ the wifi should work out of the box but it 
>> > doesn't seem to be the case:
>> >
>> > [   43.501327] brcmfmac mmc1:0001:1: Direct firmware load for 
>> > brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.raspberrypi,3-model-a-plus.txt failed with error -2
>> > [   43.501632] brcmfmac mmc1:0001:1: Direct firmware load for 
>> > brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt failed with error -2
>> >
>> > I do not see this file in: /usr/lib/firmware/brcm. I do see one for model 
>> > b: "brcmfmac43455-sdio.raspberrypi,3-model-b-plus.txt"
>>
>> So that's an admission, must have missed that when we pushed the NVRAM
>> upstream. The NVRAM is device specific, it's not really a firmware,
>> but we know all the 3A module is the same as the B+ so you can
>> actually just do:
>>
>> ln -s /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.raspberrypi,3-model-b-plus.txt
>> /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.raspberrypi,3-model-a-plus.txt
>>
>> I'll organise a PR for upstream to fix that.
>>
>> > Used the following for firmware:
>> > arm-image-installer --image=Fedora-Server-armhfp-32-1.6-sda.raw.xz 
>> > --target=rpi3 --media=/dev/sdf
>> >
>> > Let me know what additional info you might need, and I'm happy to test.
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