From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Faissal Bensefia Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2016 10:31:04 +0000 Subject: BCM43224 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20009b01-d725-13a8-698e-ce0939d08e20@me.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On 29/11/16 20:37, Faissal Bensefia wrote: > > On 29 Nov 2016 11:01 a.m., Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote: >> >> On 29 November 2016 at 11:48, Faissal Bensefia wrote: >>> On 28/11/16 21:03, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote: >>>> On 23 November 2016 at 21:27, Faissal Bensefia wrote: >>>>> To my knowledge the only drivers for this card are brcmsmac and >>>>> broadcom-wl, both of which require proprietary firmware, which I'd like >>>>> to do without. How can I assist in reverse engineering the BCM43224 >>>>> firmware? Are there any resources that explain how to use b43-tools? >>>> >>>> b43 also has (very) limited support for BCM43224, after all you >>>> e-mailed b43 mailing list. >>>> >>> I've attempted to use b43 but on my card but it doesn't work, the module >>> never loads, despite me removing brcmsmac making sure that everything >>> has been unloaded and then loading b43, as well as blacklisting >>> brcmsmac, none of which worked. From what I've read there is meant to be >>> support but it's not been tested (I don't remember where the site was >>> but it had a list of Broadcom cards and their support status). >> >> Please be specific. >> >> "the module never loads" - what error do you see after doing "modprobe b43"? >> >> -- >> Rafa? > > I get no error when I do that. When I say the module never loads I'm assuming it hasn't because I have no network connection and network manager doesn't detect a Wi-Fi interface. > Ok, just a follow up, I was looking through my journalctl and found this: Dec 03 10:29:27 macbook-xubuntu kernel: b43: probe of bcma0:1 failed with error -524 ~Faissal