Hi, Thanks for all your work on the b43 drivers and tools. I have some questions that I'm hoping you can help answer, or help point me in the right direction:
1) Is there new firmware via ASUS? https://www.asus.com/us/Networking/RTAC66U/HelpDesk_Download/ says: Version 3.0.0.4.378.9313 Description GPL of ASUS RT-AC66U for firmware 3.0.0.4.378.9313 File Size 567.48 MBytes update 2015/11/16 Download from Global "Global" is a link to http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-AC66U/GPL_RT_AC66U_30043789313.zip contains GPL_RT-AC66U_3.0.0.4.378.9313-g53ab20f.tgz contains other files and the following files (md5sum in front): ad1372a88f5ce40a1d1e6869d5c24580 asuswrt/License 27030a199072d086d746a679f4f23567 asuswrt/release/src-rt-6.x/wl/sysdeps/RT-AC66U/linux/wl_ap.o 8ef6030e304f0906835b551928b7c510 asuswrt/release/src-rt-6.x/wl/sysdeps/RT-AC66U/linux/wl_apsta.o 2cc734d9f9ba27c5922f351f6558aa54 asuswrt/release/src-rt-6.x/wl/sysdeps/RT-AC66U/linux/wl_sta.o 2) Are these ASUS released files GPL that could be included in the Linux kernel? asuswrt/License starts: DESCRIPTION -------------------------- This product includes copyrighted third-party software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Please see The GNU General Public License for the exact terms and conditions of this license. All future firmware updates will also be accompanied with their respective source code. Please visit our web site for updated information. Note that we do not offer direct support for the distribution. 3) https://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11 also has a download to hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_271.tar.gz with files dated 2015-09-18 including lib/wlc_hybrid.o_shipped with md5sum 6889dbd24abf8006de5cc6eddd138518. This looks newer than broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2 which had support added in 2013 to fwcutter. It's hard to tell without trying to cut the files out, and I'm not sure if that's the right file. 4) http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/ lists b43-fwcutter-018 but I see http://bues.ch/b43/fwcutter/ lists: b43-fwcutter-019.tar.bz2 25-Jun-2014 16:05 46K 5) http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en/users/Drivers/b43/ lists http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 but http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en/users/Drivers/b43/developers/ shows a table with a link to http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2 which looks newer. Does it not work as well as 5.100.138? 6) b43-fwcutter-0.19.tar.bz2 contains: ./debian/firmware-b43-installer/DEBIAN/postinst that downloads broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 and not 6.30.136.46 Debian and Ubuntu b43-fwcutter_019-2 contain the same postinst. 7) Debian, Ubuntu and Arch are all tracking issues with b43-fwcutter including file permissions being 750 or 755. See: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/b43-fwcutter/+bugs https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=yes&src=b43-fwcutter https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/b43-firmware/ Fedora doesn't list any open bugs at https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/b43-fwcutter/ and doesn't seem to have the postinst script. There may be other issues being tracked in the other distributions like openSUSE. Are the file permissions intentional? Just needed temporarily? Thanks, Drew Daniels Blog: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/blog/ _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list b43-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
