Re: BCM4330 linux support

[Benjamin Adler <benadler@gmx.net>]

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On 07.02.2015 19:37, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> Looking at that target string it seems to contain some windows specific
> features, which may prevent the operation that failed in the log you sent.
>
> You mentioned trying the firmware from linux-firmware repo as well.
> However, could you try that firmware file instead with logging enabled.
> I want to know whether you get same failure there or something else.

in linux-firmware/brcm, there is

# md5sum bcm43xx-0.fw (96kb)
b0736e3590b05d27284fbb8a3efd50e1  bcm43xx-0.fw

# hexdump -C bcm43xx-0.fw | tail -20
|................|
|............>>..|
|....>.......<...|
|........`.......|
|d.......`.......|
|f.......`.......|
|d.......`.......|
|d.......`...%...|
|d.......`...;...|
|f.......`...<...|
|d.......`.......|
|d...<...`.......|
|d...4...`.......|
|d...0...`.......|
|d...,...`.......|
|d...,...`.......|
|d...(...`.......|
|d...(...`..."...|
|d...(...........|

(wlan0 didn't even show)

and there is

# md5sum brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin (222kb)
4ec6341cbe351f13d787aaea99141bea  brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin

|.hA......^......|
|^......A..Pd..Z.|
|.....^......A..P|
|e..^..7..h......|
|................|
|s...........{...|
|\....Z}h.q.N@[.K|
|..E%$NI.aG(?.vu.|
|..2...4330b2-rom|
|l/sdio-ag-pool-c|
|cx-btamp-p2p-ids|
|up-idauth-proptx|
|status-pno-aoe-t|
|oe-pktfilter-kee|
|palive Version: |
|5.90.125.104 CRC|
|: 2570e6a3 Date:|
| Tue 2011-10-25 |
|19:34:26 PDT..|

dmesg after the following commands is attached.

# ifconfig wlan0 up

# iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

# hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
Failed to create interface mon.wlan0: -95 (Operation not supported)
wlan0: Could not connect to kernel driver

Thanks!
Ben

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