On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 11:19:19PM +0100, Patrick Wildt wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 10:26:11PM +0100, Jan Johansson wrote: > > Patrick Wildt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Oh, that's an interesting hardware. The second x86 machine I see that > > > has bwfm(4) on SDIO. So the thing is, in addition to your firmware > > > you need a product-specific NVRAM file, which then needs to be processed > > > into a NVRAM binary. > > > > > > Apparently, like on the other x86 machines, it is stored in the EFI env. > > > There's a guide how to retrieve it using linux[0]. If you can retrieve > > > it and get back to me we can make it work. > > > > > > [0] https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/T100TA#WiFi > > > > Hello! > > > > Thank you for the respons. > > > > Using a Debian Live USB it was easy to extract the nvram. I saved > > it as /etc/firmware/brcmfmac43340-sdio.nvram and now the dmesg > > looks like this > > That's why I told you to get back to me. This text file needs to be > processed by a tool that strips comments and adds some checksum to > the file. > > The tool reads the text file and creates an nvram.out that should be > moved to /etc/firmware/brcmfmac43340-sdio.nvram. Simply compile it > and invoke it as: > > ./nvram brcmfmac43340-sdio.txt
I understand that this is vendors making things difficult, but could we make this process easier somehow? At the very least ship your tool in base and document this process in the man page?
