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* b43 -- 4312 and built-in/static kernel
@ 2011-04-30  1:27 Alfred B. M. Cordero
  2011-04-30  2:07 ` Rafał Miłecki
  2011-04-30  5:20 ` Larry Finger
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Alfred B. M. Cordero @ 2011-04-30  1:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: b43-dev

Hello,

I am building a static kernel. I have gotten the DVB card working 
by adding
the .fw to linux/firmware and so I am doing the same thing with the 
4312.
The kernel builds fine, the 4312 is found and seems fine.
dmesg reports the card, lspci shows it and so does ifconfig -a.

ip link set dev wlan0 up pretty much hangs and none of the iw* 
commands
work.


The problem may be that at the request_firmware stage there is a 
mismatch
between what I've compiled into the kernel and what 
request_firmware is
requesting. 

I have ucode5.fw, b0g0bsinit and b0g0init in linux/firmware and
added those to .config

If anyone knows how to narrow this down it would be great.

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* b43 -- 4312 and built-in/static kernel
  2011-04-30  1:27 b43 -- 4312 and built-in/static kernel Alfred B. M. Cordero
@ 2011-04-30  2:07 ` Rafał Miłecki
  2011-04-30  5:20 ` Larry Finger
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Rafał Miłecki @ 2011-04-30  2:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: b43-dev

2011/4/30 Alfred B. M. Cordero <otto-pilot@hushmail.com>:
> I am building a static kernel. I have gotten the DVB card working
> by adding
> the .fw to linux/firmware and so I am doing the same thing with the
> 4312.
> The kernel builds fine, the 4312 is found and seems fine.
> dmesg reports the card, lspci shows it and so does ifconfig -a.
>
> ip link set dev wlan0 up pretty much hangs and none of the iw*
> commands
> work.
>
>
> The problem may be that at the request_firmware stage there is a
> mismatch
> between what I've compiled into the kernel and what
> request_firmware is
> requesting.

What mismatch?

I've noticed some delay when starting interface on LP-PHY card, didn't
debug this yet.

Did you try b43 as module? Did it work?

-- 
Rafa?

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* b43 -- 4312 and built-in/static kernel
  2011-04-30  1:27 b43 -- 4312 and built-in/static kernel Alfred B. M. Cordero
  2011-04-30  2:07 ` Rafał Miłecki
@ 2011-04-30  5:20 ` Larry Finger
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Larry Finger @ 2011-04-30  5:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: b43-dev

On 04/29/2011 08:27 PM, Alfred B. M. Cordero wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am building a static kernel. I have gotten the DVB card working
> by adding
> the .fw to linux/firmware and so I am doing the same thing with the
> 4312.
> The kernel builds fine, the 4312 is found and seems fine.
> dmesg reports the card, lspci shows it and so does ifconfig -a.
>
> ip link set dev wlan0 up pretty much hangs and none of the iw*
> commands
> work.
>
>
> The problem may be that at the request_firmware stage there is a
> mismatch
> between what I've compiled into the kernel and what
> request_firmware is
> requesting.
>
> I have ucode5.fw, b0g0bsinit and b0g0init in linux/firmware and
> added those to .config
>
> If anyone knows how to narrow this down it would be great.

What exactly do you mean by 4312? If you mean a PCI ID of 14e4:4312, then the 
firmware above is partially correct. The ucode5.fw is correct, but you also need 
b0g0initvals5.fw and b0g0initvals5.fw. In addition, you might need 
a0g1initvals5.fw or a0g1initvals5. I no longer have one of those devices, thus I 
cannot test.

If you mean BCM4312 802.11b/g, then your firmware selection is wrong. This type 
of device will have a PCI ID of 14e4:4315 and will require different firmware. 
For these LP-PHY devices, b0g0initvals13.fw, lp0initvals13.fw, and ucode13.fw 
are probably needed.

Larry

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