David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 17:38 +0100, Ed Davies wrote: >> [ 401.060000] bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not >> available or load failed. > > Did you use bcm43xx-fwcutter to extract firmware from one of the > official drivers, and install it in /lib/firmware? I suspect not.
Yes, I did use fwcutter. The snippet you quoted was part of a sequence where I deliberately renamed one of the firmware files to show that the firmware was normally being found OK. The packaging of fwcutter in Ubuntu (Feisty, at least) has a problem in that the installation process attempts to download a driver from a location where it isn't (or isn't anymore). The installation process therefore fails, but the bcm43xx_fwcutter program is installed. I tried a couple of drivers, finishing up with the openwrt driver from: http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o and expanded it using fwcutter: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/downloads/bcm43xx/openwrt$ bcm43xx-fwcutter wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o filename : wl_apsta.o version : 3.130.20.0 MD5 : e08665c5c5b66beb9c3b2dd54aa80cb3 microcodes : 2 4 5 11 pcms : 4 5 microcode : 2 revision : 0x0127 patchlevel : 0x000e date : 2005-04-18 time : 02:36:27 microcode : 4 revision : 0x0127 patchlevel : 0x000e date : 2005-04-18 time : 02:36:27 microcode : 5 revision : 0x0127 patchlevel : 0x000e date : 2005-04-18 time : 02:36:27 microcode : 11 revision : 0x0127 patchlevel : 0x000e date : 2005-04-18 time : 02:36:27 extracting bcm43xx_microcode2.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_microcode4.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_microcode5.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_microcode11.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_pcm4.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_pcm5.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval01.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval02.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval03.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval04.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval05.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval06.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval07.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval08.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval09.fw ... extracting bcm43xx_initval10.fw ... Resulting in the files I copied to /lib/firmware. Just to check: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/downloads/bcm43xx/openwrt$ diff -qr . /lib/firmware Only in /lib/firmware: 2.6.20-15-generic Only in /lib/firmware: 2.6.20-16-generic Only in /lib/firmware: 2.6.22-10-generic Only in .: source Only in .: wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o "source" just contains my note of the web address I downloaded from. Regards, Ed Davies. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
