Opened 2 years ago

Closed 22 months ago

#102 closed defect (fixed)

b43/ucode5.fw not found

Reported by: e.d.grootjans@… Owned by: amain
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: buildsystem Version: 2.0
Severity: severity 4 Keywords: b43
Cc:

Description (last modified by stappers)

I did a make V=99 and did get an kernel and the filesystem.
I used rev182.
So far, so good.
When I booted the new kernel; i get the following error:

[from dmesg]

b44: b44.c:v2.0
b44 ssb0:0: eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:15:f2:77:d0:c1

b44 ssb0:0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
b44 ssb0:0: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX
.
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BCM47xx Watchdog Timer enabled (30 seconds, nowayout)
TCP westwood registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Bridge firewalling registered
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
.
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diag: Detected 'ASUS WL-500g Deluxe'
Compat-wireless backport release: compat-wireless-2011-01-31-19-g74d6d79
Backport based on wireless-testing.git master-2011-02-25
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b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found (core revision 5)
ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PL, GPIO LED Mask: 0x000f, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
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'''b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.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.'''
device eth0_lan entered promiscuous mode
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
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If i do an iwconfig or an ifconfig; i see a not configured wlan0 (NO wlan0.monitor)
if i do a brctl show; i see no wlan0 (only an eth0_lan interface)
when i start hostapd

Starting advanced IEEE 802.11 management: hostapdb43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file " b43/ucode5.fw" not found
b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.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.'''
trmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory
 failed!

>>Named driver cannot be installed by: sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
package not found. 

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comment:1 Changed 2 years ago by e.d.grootjans@…

The file ucode5.fw has to be in /lib/firmware/b43, but isn't.

If i copy the *5.fw files from an old build to lib/firmware/b43 - for example rev156 -
I can load the b43 interface.

comment:2 Changed 2 years ago by stappers

  • Description modified (diff)

comment:3 Changed 22 months ago by amain

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Severity set to severity 4
  • Status changed from new to closed

Problem in the rules/extract_kmodpkg.sh. It did not copy ucode5.fw. Fixed in r290.

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