Brian J. Murrell wrote: > 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?
Hi, is the b43 module also on an external USB drive? The b43 driver is initilizied very early, probably before the USB drive is fully initialized and then the driver does not find the firmware. Have you tried to put the firmware onto the internal flash? Hauke
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