Re: Trouble getting bcm43xx driver to work
Johannes Berg at Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:37:28PM CET wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 14:23 +0100, Milan Toth wrote:
> >
> > I have same problem and when I run
> >
> > krachsna:~# ifconfig eth1 up
> > SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>
> That's not the same problem, look into dmesg and follow the readme.
>
> [hint: this usually happens if you didn't extract the firmware
> correctly]
here is output of fwcutter
[milan@krachsna]-[1]-[/home/data/src/bcm43xx/fwcutter] ./fwcutter /macosx//System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirport2.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleAirPort2
fwcutter can cut the firmware out of /macosx//System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirport2.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleAirPort2
filename : AppleAirPort2
version : 3.90.34.0.p11 (400.17)
MD5 : ca0f34df2f0bfb8b5cfd83b5848d2bf5
WARNING! This firmware doesn't include support for 802.11a cards.
WARNING! Use this firmware only for 802.11b/g cards.
extracting bcm43xx_microcode2.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode5.fw ...
*****: Sorry, it's not posible to extract "bcm43xx_microcode11.fw".
*****: Extracting firmware from an old driver is bad. Choose a more recent one.
*****: Luckily bcm43xx driver doesn't include microcode11 uploads at the moment.
*****: But this can be added in the future...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm5.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval01.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval02.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval03.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval04.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval05.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval06.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval07.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval08.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval09.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval10.fw ...
but dmesg said that there is problem with:
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
and in /lib/firmware there is bcm43xx_microcode5.fw file
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