OpenFWWF for b43

OpenFWWF for b43

[Mikko V. Viinamäki]

Hi!

You might want to include a mention of OpenFWWF (GNU GPL v2 drivers for certain Broadcom 43XX wifis) on this b43 page http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

http://www.ing.unibs.it/~openfwwf/

Mikko

Re: OpenFWWF for b43

[Larry Finger]

On 10/06/2012 10:36 AM, Mikko V. Viinamäki wrote:
> Hi!
>
> You might want to include a mention of OpenFWWF (GNU GPL v2 drivers for certain Broadcom 43XX wifis) on this b43 page http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
>
> http://www.ing.unibs.it/~openfwwf/
>
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It is a wiki. You can change it yourself. Whern you do, be explicit about the 
models that are supported.

Larry

Re: OpenFWWF for b43

[Rami Rosen]

Hi,
- Thanks ! good news !

The link to b43-tools seems to be broken.

This failed:
git clone http://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git

The b43_v4.6.tar.gz can be downloaded
(BTW, when running tar xfz  b43_v4.6.tar.gz,
am empty  file named b43_v4.6.tar.gz is created inside
b43_v4.6/ folder)

rgs,
Rami Rosen

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Mikko V. Viinamäki
<Mikko.Viinamaki@students.turkuamk.fi> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> You might want to include a mention of OpenFWWF (GNU GPL v2 drivers for certain Broadcom 43XX wifis) on this b43 page http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
>
> http://www.ing.unibs.it/~openfwwf/
>
> Mikko--
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Re: OpenFWWF for b43

[Larry Finger]

On 10/06/2012 02:15 PM, Rami Rosen wrote:
> Hi,
> - Thanks ! good news !
>
> The link to b43-tools seems to be broken.
>
> This failed:
> git clone http://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git
>
> The b43_v4.6.tar.gz can be downloaded
> (BTW, when running tar xfz  b43_v4.6.tar.gz,
> am empty  file named b43_v4.6.tar.gz is created inside
> b43_v4.6/ folder)

That repo was converted from HTTP to GIT form some time ago. The correct request is

git clone git://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git

It appears, however, the git.bu3sch.de is down.

Larry

Re: OpenFWWF for b43

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Hi

On Saturday 06 October 2012, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 10/06/2012 02:15 PM, Rami Rosen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > - Thanks ! good news !
> >
> > The link to b43-tools seems to be broken.
> >
> > This failed:
> > git clone http://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git
> >
> > The b43_v4.6.tar.gz can be downloaded
> > (BTW, when running tar xfz  b43_v4.6.tar.gz,
> > am empty  file named b43_v4.6.tar.gz is created inside
> > b43_v4.6/ folder)
> 
> That repo was converted from HTTP to GIT form some time ago. The correct request is
> 
> git clone git://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git
> 
> It appears, however, the git.bu3sch.de is down.

It's 
	http://git.bues.ch/gitweb
	http://git.bues.ch/gitweb?p=b43-ucode.git;a=summary
	git://git.bues.ch/b43-ucode.git
these days.

However it's a predecessor to OpenFWWF and not the working repository 
for it, which unfortunately doesn't seem to be maintained in a public 
repository.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

Re: OpenFWWF for b43

[Michael Büsch]

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On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:27:55 -0500
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:

> That repo was converted from HTTP to GIT form some time ago. The correct request is
> 
> git clone git://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git
> 
> It appears, however, the git.bu3sch.de is down.

The bu3sch.de domain is no longer registered (by me). All services are available
under bues.ch now.

git clone git://git.bues.ch/git/b43-tools.git

-- 
Greetings, Michael.

PGP encryption is encouraged / 908D8B0E

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Re: OpenFWWF for b43

[Rami Rosen]

Hi,

Thanks a lot!

> The bu3sch.de domain is no longer registered (by me). All services are available
> under bues.ch now.
>
> git clone git://git.bues.ch/git/b43-tools.git
>

It seems that the "/git/" inside this URL in wrong.

I tried as suggested:
And get:
fatal: destination path 'b43-tools' already exists and is not an empty
directory.

However:
git clone git://git.bues.ch/b43-tools.git
worked fine.

Regards,
Rami Rosen

http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen#!home/mainPage

Re: OpenFWWF for b43

[Rami Rosen]

Hi,
A little correction to my previous mail:
When trying:
 git clone git://git.bues.ch/git/b43-tools.git
The error was:

fatal: remote error: access denied or repository not exported:
/git/b43-tools.git

Rami Rosen


On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Rami Rosen <roszenrami@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>> The bu3sch.de domain is no longer registered (by me). All services are available
>> under bues.ch now.
>>
>> git clone git://git.bues.ch/git/b43-tools.git
>>
>
> It seems that the "/git/" inside this URL in wrong.
>
> I tried as suggested:
> And get:
> fatal: destination path 'b43-tools' already exists and is not an empty
> directory.
>
> However:
> git clone git://git.bues.ch/b43-tools.git
> worked fine.
>
> Regards,
> Rami Rosen
>
> http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen#!home/mainPage

Re: OpenFWWF for b43

[Kevin Wilson]

Hi,
It could be that I am missing something.
I tried building the firmware as explained here.
Under  b43_v4.6 one firmware (extension fw) file
is created, named: ucode5.fw.

I have LinkSys WRTG54GL with backfire (10.03.x).
I am using b43 driver.

I ran:
insmod b43.ko
and got:
b43-phy0: Broadcom 5352 WLAN found (core revision 9)
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: P, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]

which seems OK.

Now I copied ucode5.fw to:
/lib/firmware/b43 on the device.

I run:
hostapd /etc/hostapd.

I get this message in the kernel log:

b43 ssb0:3: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
b43 ssb0:3: firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw
b43 ssb0:3: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
b43 ssb0:3: firmware: requesting b43-open/ucode5.fw
b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/b0g0initvals5.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.



Now, I noticed two things:
1) it asks also for other firmware files. Isn't the  ucode5.fw
file the only one needed ?
2) It also looks for "b43-open" folder, not only for "b43".

Could it be that the driver I am using is not updated and
does not support this OpenFWWF firmware ?
(backfire has 2.6.32.27 kernel).

Or should there be some additional firmware from somewhere else ?

rgs,
Kevin


On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Michael Büsch <m@bues.ch> wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:27:55 -0500
> Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>
>> That repo was converted from HTTP to GIT form some time ago. The correct request is
>>
>> git clone git://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git
>>
>> It appears, however, the git.bu3sch.de is down.
>
> The bu3sch.de domain is no longer registered (by me). All services are available
> under bues.ch now.
>
> git clone git://git.bues.ch/git/b43-tools.git
>
> --
> Greetings, Michael.
>
> PGP encryption is encouraged / 908D8B0E

Re: OpenFWWF for b43

[Hauke Mehrtens]

Hi Kevin,

On 10/13/2012 10:46 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> Hi,
> It could be that I am missing something.
> I tried building the firmware as explained here.
> Under  b43_v4.6 one firmware (extension fw) file
> is created, named: ucode5.fw.

Isn't version 5.2 the latest open firmware for these broadcom devices?
Why are you using version 4.6?

> I have LinkSys WRTG54GL with backfire (10.03.x).

You could also build your own OpenWrt image and select the open firmware
in menuconfig. Then you do not have to do it yourself. I do not know if
this option is available in backfire, but it should work in trunk.

> I am using b43 driver.
> 
> I ran:
> insmod b43.ko
> and got:
> b43-phy0: Broadcom 5352 WLAN found (core revision 9)
> phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
> Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: P, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
> 
> which seems OK.
> 
> Now I copied ucode5.fw to:
> /lib/firmware/b43 on the device.
> 
> I run:ucode5.fw
> hostapd /etc/hostapd.
> 
> I get this message in the kernel log:
> 
> b43 ssb0:3: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
> b43 ssb0:3: firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw
> b43 ssb0:3: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
> b43 ssb0:3: firmware: requesting b43-open/ucode5.fw
> b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/b0g0initvals5.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.
> 
> 
> 
> Now, I noticed two things:
> 1) it asks also for other firmware files. Isn't the  ucode5.fw
> file the only one needed ?

You also need the initivals (b0g0bsinitvals5.fw and b0g0initvals5.fw) in
addition to the firmware itself (ucode5.fw).

> 2) It also looks for "b43-open" folder, not only for "b43".

OpenWrt takes b43 from compat-wireless, so OpenWrt 10.03.1 contains b43
from round about a year ago and not from kernel version 2.6.32.27. This
version searches in b43-open for the open source firmware and not in b43.

> Could it be that the driver I am using is not updated and
> does not support this OpenFWWF firmware ?
> (backfire has 2.6.32.27 kernel).
> 
> Or should there be some additional firmware from somewhere else ?
> 
> rgs,
> Kevin
> 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Michael Büsch <m@bues.ch> wrote:
>> On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:27:55 -0500
>> Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>>
>>> That repo was converted from HTTP to GIT form some time ago. The correct request is
>>>
>>> git clone git://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git
>>>
>>> It appears, however, the git.bu3sch.de is down.
>>
>> The bu3sch.de domain is no longer registered (by me). All services are available
>> under bues.ch now.
>>
>> git clone git://git.bues.ch/git/b43-tools.git
>>
>> --
>> Greetings, Michael.
>>
>> PGP encryption is encouraged / 908D8B0E
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