Re: Bug#529850: More informations about firmware for bcm43xx

[Rafal Czlonka <rafal.czlonka@googlemail.com>]

Bernhard wrote:
> Here the detailed description how to create the firmware files:
>    - Download firmware from http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/
>    - Use firmware cutter (package: b43-fwcutter) to extract the firmware
> files:
>       - Extract .tar.bz2 package and switch to this directory
>       - switch to subdirectory "driver"
>       - Extract firmware with "b43-fwcutter wl_apsta_mimo.o"

All that is done by the script[0] from "b43-fwcutter" package.

>    - The extracted firmware in "driver/b43" has to be packaged in a
> Debian package.

Debian cannot ship this firmware even in "non-free" since the firmware
in question is copyrighted by Broadcom and cannot be redistributed[1].

[0]/usr/share/b43-fwcutter/install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh
[1]http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware

Regards,
-- 
Raf

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