* BCM43224
@ 2016-11-23 20:27 Faissal Bensefia
2016-11-28 21:03 ` BCM43224 Rafał Miłecki
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Faissal Bensefia @ 2016-11-23 20:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: b43-dev
Good day all,
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?
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* BCM43224
2016-11-23 20:27 BCM43224 Faissal Bensefia
@ 2016-11-28 21:03 ` Rafał Miłecki
2016-11-29 10:48 ` BCM43224 Faissal Bensefia
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Rafał Miłecki @ 2016-11-28 21:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: b43-dev
On 23 November 2016 at 21:27, Faissal Bensefia <faissaloo@me.com> 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.
For open firmware implementation my best suggestion is to contact
OpenFWWF team http://netweb.ing.unibs.it/~openfwwf/
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* BCM43224
2016-11-28 21:03 ` BCM43224 Rafał Miłecki
@ 2016-11-29 10:48 ` Faissal Bensefia
2016-11-29 11:01 ` BCM43224 Rafał Miłecki
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Faissal Bensefia @ 2016-11-29 10:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: b43-dev
On 28/11/16 21:03, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote:
> On 23 November 2016 at 21:27, Faissal Bensefia <faissaloo@me.com> 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).
> For open firmware implementation my best suggestion is to contact
> OpenFWWF team http://netweb.ing.unibs.it/~openfwwf/
>
Thanks very much, I'll look into this.
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* BCM43224
2016-11-29 10:48 ` BCM43224 Faissal Bensefia
@ 2016-11-29 11:01 ` Rafał Miłecki
2016-11-29 15:01 ` BCM43224 Dora Smith
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Rafał Miłecki @ 2016-11-29 11:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: b43-dev
On 29 November 2016 at 11:48, Faissal Bensefia <faissaloo@me.com> wrote:
> On 28/11/16 21:03, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote:
>> On 23 November 2016 at 21:27, Faissal Bensefia <faissaloo@me.com> 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?
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* BCM43224
2016-11-29 11:01 ` BCM43224 Rafał Miłecki
@ 2016-11-29 15:01 ` Dora Smith
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dora Smith @ 2016-11-29 15:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: b43-dev
I got it to work, sort of, but ended up upgrading to a new old card, and
I've been VERY happy with it.
I did research and found one of the few N cards that was made for the type
of slot in my older notebook.
Dora
-----Original Message-----
From: Rafa? Mi?ecki
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 5:01 AM
To: Faissal Bensefia
Cc: b43-dev
Subject: Re: BCM43224
On 29 November 2016 at 11:48, Faissal Bensefia <faissaloo@me.com> wrote:
> On 28/11/16 21:03, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote:
>> On 23 November 2016 at 21:27, Faissal Bensefia <faissaloo@me.com> 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?
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* BCM43224
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@ 2016-12-03 10:31 ` Faissal Bensefia
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Faissal Bensefia @ 2016-12-03 10:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: b43-dev
On 29/11/16 20:37, Faissal Bensefia wrote:
>
> On 29 Nov 2016 11:01 a.m., Rafa? Mi?ecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 29 November 2016 at 11:48, Faissal Bensefia <faissaloo@me.com> wrote:
>>> On 28/11/16 21:03, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote:
>>>> On 23 November 2016 at 21:27, Faissal Bensefia <faissaloo@me.com> 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
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