On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 06:18:12PM +0000, dan pridgeon wrote:
[cut] > ______________________________________________________ > Thanks. At this point in my investigation, I would like to know which > version ofB43 is loaded by netinst.iso. tty4 show that B43 is loaded and is > requesting > b43/ucode13.fw or b43-open/ucode13.fw. From my searches so far, the error -2 > is not an error, but a message that means it can't find those files. It also > appearsthat netinst.iso is looking for them on the ramfs/initramfs and is not > looking on the > removable media. I would like to know how to get to the source code for the > modulethat's putting up the messages on tty4 so I can study it and find out > what's really > going on. While this may be a somewhat rare problem, it is quite old > problem and > only the ucodeXX.fw value changes in the error -2 messages. While I now know > howto fix the C700 at this point, I think the netinst.iso code needs to be > looked at. > How do I determine which source code I should be studying? I assume its on > gethubsomewhere. Thanks for any help. > > Dan, you don't need to study any code, IMHO. b43-fwcutter works by *extracting* the needed firmware from the Windows driver. So you need the Windows driver for your wifi card, use b43fwcutter on it, get the files, and put them under /firmware. Please look online for confirmations. I had to do that at least a couple of times in the past. I guess the procedure has not changed much, if at all. HTH KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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