>
> If you copy any existing firmware files in /lib/firmware/b43/ on your
> working
> system, either from a USB stick, or from mounting a hard drive partition,
> could
> you then load b43? If not, perhaps we can get some better diagnostics from
> a
> running kernel.
>
Not a problem at all; the b43.blacklist=yes kernel param causes the
module to bail out; I used that to get 12.04 installed.
That said, I rebuilt to 11.10 to test older kernels, and that's where the
system is at the moment.
I've installed Ubuntu's b43 firmware package and rebooted into the
3.2.0-rc2 kernel.
that works, now.
regards, Ben
ben@tecumseh:~$ uname -a
Linux tecumseh 3.2.0-030200rc2-generic #201111151435 SMP Tue Nov 15
19:43:49 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
ben@tecumseh:~$ iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"foo"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: 00:1A:xx:xx:xx:xx
Bit Rate=48 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:54 Missed beacon:0
ben@tecumseh:~$ dmesg | grep b43
[ 2.290618] b43-pci-bridge 0000:06:02.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 2.290657] b43-pci-bridge 0000:06:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level,
low) -> IRQ 22
[ 2.290679] b43-pci-bridge 0000:06:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 19.256398] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
[ 19.534661] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[ 19.534694] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[ 19.534726] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[ 22.592042] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 508.1084 (2009-01-14
01:32:01)
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