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Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 05:05
by smokey01
Placed in /lib/firmware rebooted and now working like a charm
Did a speed test and it is the same as my ethernet at about 7mbps
This distro is a keeper.
Good job and thanks.
01micko wrote:smokey01 wrote:I remember having this problem once before, in Fatdog64 I think.
I just need to figure out now where I need to put it.
/lib/firmware should do. Try it.
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 05:10
by smokey01
This
http://www.youtube.com/user/homeproject worked in full screen without a hitch.
Re: The return of b43 detection in k3 puppies
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 05:11
by grump
regarding Broadcom B4322 wireless ...
The machine is a HP Mini 2140 netbook. If it's any consolation Ubuntu 11.10 did not get the wireless up either.
Now tried 5.3.1.4 and collected the info 01micko requested.
The message quoted below still comes up when trying to configure the wireless.
grump wrote:...
from prev post:
when running the network wizard and trying to scan for wireless the msgbox says:
Failed to raise interface wlan0.
failed command was: ifconfig wlan0 up
Error returned was:
ifconfig: SIOCIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
I'll get back to this later today.
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 05:24
by 01micko
Thanks for the logs grump.. they tell you what to do
[ 50.088498] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/n0initvals16.fw" not found
[ 50.088508] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode16_mimo.fw" not found
[ 50.088517] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Dri ... cefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
[ 50.179409] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/n0initvals16.fw" not found
[ 50.179418] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode16_mimo.fw" not found
[ 50.179428] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Dri ... cefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
So another FW issue, actually looks identical to mavrothal's issue with his imac. We find the FW you are both in business!
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 05:46
by James C
I don't do wireless but I just happened to be reading about dreaded b43 wireless on Aptosid's site....
http://aptosid.com/index.php?module=new ... lay&sid=35
b43/ b43legacy support for Broadcom wlan cards.
OpenFWWF 5.2 opensource firmware for the following Broadcom AirForce 802.11b/g wireless cards:
BCM4306
BCM4311 revision 1
BCM4318
BCM4320
experimental support for LP-PHY (BCM4312) and SSB based 802.11n (BCM4321, BCM4322) devices, non-free firmware images required.
May be of some help, just thought I'd throw it into the mix.
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 06:44
by 01micko
grump,
Try this link for your firmware
http://pkgs.org/fedora-16/russian-fedor ... /download/
/lib/firmware/b43
/lib/firmware/b43/a0g0bsinitvals5.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/a0g0bsinitvals9.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/a0g0initvals5.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/a0g0initvals9.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/a0g1bsinitvals13.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/a0g1bsinitvals5.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/a0g1bsinitvals9.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/a0g1initvals13.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/a0g1initvals5.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/a0g1initvals9.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/b0g0bsinitvals13.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/b0g0bsinitvals9.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/b0g0initvals13.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/b0g0initvals9.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/lp0bsinitvals13.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/lp0bsinitvals14.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/lp0initvals13.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/lp0initvals14.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/lp0initvals15.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/n0absinitvals11.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/n0bsinitvals11.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/n0initvals11.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/pcm5.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/ucode11.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/ucode13.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/ucode14.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/ucode15.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/ucode16_mimo.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/ucode5.fw
/lib/firmware/b43/ucode9.fw
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 09:46
by grump
BINGO!
After getting that rpm (from another site and on my other lappy) and finding how to un-rpm an rpm I had the contents of lib/firmware/b43. First try was with a pfix=ram start, then copy the firmware into the original spot. This did not bring up the wireless.
2nd try was also with a pfix=ram, but this time renamed the original ././b43 to b43_old, then copied the new one in. Then in the network wizard unloaded the b43 module, then reloaded it. When I tried scanning for a wireless network the blue status light came on, and then I was called to dinner so I shutdown with save. After a normal boot the blue light came on and I was able to set up the wireless in the usual way.
Thanks for all the work and knowledge - and straightforward advice.
So - steps are:
- get the right firmware files
- rename the old firmware files
- copy in the new ones
- unload the b43 module (has rwong firmware)
- reload the b43 module (now has right FW)
- configure wireless.
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 11:11
by grump
And further - I was going to say that installing pets I had already downloaded (eg cursor-themes.pet) was not working - it was not for a while but now is.
I've had a lot of fun (ie time wasting) getting the 'live usb' (the HP mini has no optical disk) to work like a 'live cd', so that the save-file could live on the hdd. I can't find where I got the info from, but I now have a syslinux.cfg with the following last line:
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=cd pfix=copy
Easy!
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 12:38
by russoodle
01micko wrote:@russoodle.. you can't go wrong with the King-o-Bling's advice
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There's a little bling for your browser in the main post. I'd include it in the build but the only way I know how is to hard code it in /root/.mozilla.. I don't do that. I haven't written anything hard coded to /root in awhile and I'm not about to revert to that bad habit.
You can easily make personas yourself. I was surprised how easy it was. You need to do it in firefox though (but it can be worn by seamonkey). You also need the "personas plus" extension then follow
this tut.
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Thanks for the bling and creative info....i've often used personas on FF but never thought of trying to make any myself.
Slacko's works fine in SeaMonkey, as you can see below
And on another note ~ i'm waiting at least 24 hours before downloading any updated iso versions, because Slacko's starting to breed faster than mice
BTW, what was the reason for 'take 2'? What issues were addressed from 'take 1'?
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 12:45
by drblock2
Alpha 4 boots on my AMD Athlon XP/MP (Barton), 2 GHz, but menus are empty. This is the same behavior as observed with Alpha 2. (Alpha 3 did not boot at all.)
As I mentioned in an earlier post, this machine does not seem to like the 3x kernel.
I would welcome any suggestions.
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 13:02
by 01micko
grump, thanks for info.. that should help alot of b43 users
russoodle, It was getting late and I was sleepy
... realised when Billtoo posted that I uploaded the wrong iso!
so.. take 2.. take 1 was up long enough for aarf to make deltas (about an hour, again, apologies aarf)
drblock2.. this is strange (no menus).. what video driver do you have? Maybe installing mesa would help. It reminds me of the intel brookdale video issues we had in 5.3 development but you couldn't possibly have an intel vid chip with AMD cpu! Please post results of "report-video". Thanks.
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 13:20
by aarf
01micko wrote:
russoodle, It was getting late and I was sleepy
... realised when Billtoo posted that I uploaded the wrong iso!
so.. take 2.. take 1 was up long enough for aarf to make deltas (about an hour, again, apologies aarf)
Thanks.
no worries micko. can online build deltas faster than you can load isos now.
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 14:41
by pemasu
Here is that previously posted link to b43 firmware rpm package as pet.
It installs the whole 117 firmwares to /lib/firmware/b43/
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 16:11
by mavrothal
01micko wrote:
So another FW issue, actually looks identical to mavrothal's issue with his imac. We find the FW you are both in business!
Unfortunately not
My iMac has an 432B chip and it would appear that only the broadcom-wl driver can handle it.
Did you say you compiled it?...
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 16:29
by drblock2
micko,
Ooops, should have given you the video information immediately:
NV34 Board - p162-2nz Chip Rev = GeForce FX5200.
On boot, the nouveau driver was selected, which resulted in no menus. Attempts to change the driver to nv or vesa ended with the black screen of death.
I loaded the mesa-7.10.2-s.pet as suggested and then switched to vesa via xorgwizard.
Menus restored! Excellent, if somewhat slow (150 fps) video.
If you post a link to the kernel sources for the next Alpha, I will compile the proprietary driver with the new kernel and test it.
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 16:54
by peebee
pemasu wrote:Here is that previously posted link to b43 firmware rpm package as pet.
It installs the whole 117 firmwares to /lib/firmware/b43/
Thanks as always pemasu.
I loaded the "new" firmware onto a pristine, manual, frugall install of 5.3.1.4 - all OK with my B43
But its definitely much newer firmware than is currently in woof:
New:
Code: Select all
b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found (core revision 13)
b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
Old:
Code: Select all
b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found (core revision 13)
b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
Can we update???
Cheers
peebee
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 17:13
by pemasu
These firmware packages are kernel version spesific. The one 01micko posted a link to rpm which I packaged as pet is meant to kernel 3.2.X and and then there is firmware package for older kernels.
So...I wouldnt make firmware update request for woof....since Barry posted that he wants to stick with 3.0.17 due to unionfs support for it.
01micko and I have used aufs with our 3.1.X and 3.2.X experiments...so there is no kernel version restriction like with unionfs.
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 17:22
by peebee
pemasu wrote:These firmware packages are kernel version spesific.
Hi pemasu
I realise that you know much more about such things than me - but I'm pretty sure the firmware has been the same version over many different kernels and puppies at least in the k2 kernel series.....
Should I try the "new" firmware in say wary522 - I think I will just for interest -
It didn't work - wary522 with the "new" firmware couldn't detect any networks - I'll try it with other k3 puppies as I get chance.
Cheers
Peebee
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 17:45
by pemasu
I dont know much more than you. I just noticed that there are two different downloadable firmware packages:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drive ... oned_above
What is the practical difference, I dont know...
But of course you can experiment.
I just can speculate, that there are newer supported hw with newer kernel...so there is need for new firmware package and maybe due to b43 driver update...not all older firmwares does work optimally, but as I said....just my speculation.
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 18:46
by pemasu
Oh...I have forgotten to post my test feelings. Nothing much to tell. My troublesome touchpad works like charm, wlan connection with no problem. Installing pets...extracting stuff with rox right click pet stuff....downloaded latest woof2 commit, updated my building platform...posting....using...all works what I have needed.
So....Mostly harmless....