I've just posted some more details to ticket #3152 which is currently closed. Could somebody with permission to do so, please reopen it?
Basically, I'm getting: b43-phy2: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found phy2: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid' Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: NLR, Firmware-ID: FW13 ] input: b43-phy2 as /devices/virtual/input/input3 b43-phy2 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/b0g0initvals5.fw" not found b43-phy2 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the latest firmware (version 4). Trying to do: insmod b43 ifconfig wlan0 up But the file most certainly exists: r...@gw:~# ls -l /lib/firmware/b43/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 Jan 31 11:36 a0g0bsinitvals4.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158 Jan 31 11:36 a0g0bsinitvals5.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158 Jan 31 11:36 a0g0bsinitvals9.fw ... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158 Jan 31 11:36 b0g0bsinitvals5.fw ... My / (and therefor the above files) is on a USB key if that matters any. Interestingly enough, there seem to be other occurrences of this this issue: http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=18473 http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=14233 The second one above is also a WL500gp and the problem for him only occurred after moving his / to USB storage. Is there some problem with the kernel trying to read firmware files from a USB storage device perhaps? Any ideas how to move forward with debugging this? b. P.S. I'm not terribly hopeful that this b43 driver will function well in AP mode, but I thought it would be easy enough to give it a try. I guess not. :-(
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