On 03.10.2015 13:43, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
On 2 October 2015 at 18:23, Zlatko Calusic <zcalu...@bitsync.net> wrote:
Hello,
please help with this issue, the error message is cryptic I don't know what
error -2 means:
b43 bcma0:1: Direct firmware load for b43/ucode30_mimo.fw failed with error
-2
b43 bcma0:1: Direct firmware load for b43/ucode30_mimo.fw failed with error
-2
b43 bcma0:1: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode30_mimo.fw failed with
error -2
b43 bcma0:1: Direct firmware load for b43-open/ucode30_mimo.fw failed with
error -2
b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode30_mimo.fw" not found
b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode30_mimo.fw" not found
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.
Yet, ls -al /lib/firmware/b43/ucode30_mimo.fw:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39632 Apr 6 18:09 /lib/firmware/b43/ucode30_mimo.fw
it's there, as put by b43-fwcutter package (Debian 1:019-2). Though I don't
have b43-open directory, tried symlinking it, didn't help.
The kernel is virgin 4.2.0 Linus, custom compiled, relevant config entries
below, am I missing something?
CONFIG_B43=y
Are you using an initrd? The b43 driver tries to load the firmware
when it is initialised. If b43 is builtin (not a module) then the load
will happen at boot time - when the initrd is mounted, but before the
real root - and the firmware won't be found. The solution is to either
copy the firmware to the initrd, or build b43 as a module and make
sure the module isn't on the initrd.
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y
Trying to include the firmware blobs in to the kernel binary is
unlikely to work for b43, because b43/main.c only defines 7 firmware
files in MODULE_FIRMWARE(). There are ~117 firmware files in
/lib/firmware/b43 and your wifi card requires some subset of those,
probably not the 7 that are defined.
Thank you very much Chris for this great reply. I would've spent lots of
time trying to figure this out alone.
First I set CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=n as it obviously doesn't help my
case. Still it didn't work because initramfs is not pulling the needed
firmware. This I solved with a simple /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/b43 hook:
#! /bin/sh -e
mkdir -p "${DESTDIR}/lib/firmware"
cp -a /lib/firmware/b43 "${DESTDIR}/lib/firmware"
And now all is well, firmware gets loaded, wifi works.
Best regards,
--
Zlatko
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