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Bug#529850: marked as done (Please include firmware for broadcom WLAN bcm43xx)

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Package: firmware-nonfree
Severity: wishlist
Version: 0.16

Please add the firmware for the broadcom WLAN bcm43xx series.
The firmware can be found on:
http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2

The firmware has to be extracted with the firmware cutter.

On my notebook with bcm4318, this firmware works fine.

Regards
Bernhard

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On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 08:26 +0200, Bernhard wrote:
> Hello, Ben
> 
> Thank you very much for the fast response.
> 
> 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"
>    - The extracted firmware in "driver/b43" has to be packaged in a
> Debian package.

According to the homepage for b43-fwcutter
<http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware>, "the
firmware from the binary drivers is Copyrighted by Broadcom Corporation
and must not be redistributed."  Furthermore, b43-fwcutter extracts
firmware from the object file wl_apsta.o, which as I said before has no
explicit licence attached.

Please do not ask us to distribute firmware without a licence.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky

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