bcm43xx udev firmware

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 16:39:06 UTC 2006


I am trying to follow instructions for testing bcm43xx.  I extracted
firmware from bcmwl564.sys, seemed OK.  Wrote to /lib/firmware.  But it
doesn't seem like any firware download happened.  This is now the
responsibility of udev (no longer hotplug), right?  Do I have to setup
something for udev to do this?

modprobe bcm43xx gives this:
[nbecker at nbecker4 ~]$ sudo /sbin/modprobe -v bcm43xx
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1871_FC5/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko 
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1871_FC5/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211.ko 
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1871_FC5/kernel/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac.ko 
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1871_FC5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx.ko 

ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation
<jketreno at linux.intel.com>
"bcm43xx" driver 0.0.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
"bcm43xx": Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2
"bcm43xx": Number of cores: 4
"bcm43xx": Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243, enabled
"bcm43xx": Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, disabled
"bcm43xx": Core 2: ID 0x804, rev 0xc, vendor 0x4243, enabled
"bcm43xx": Core 3: ID 0x80d, rev 0x7, vendor 0x4243, enabled
"bcm43xx": PHY connected
"bcm43xx": Detected PHY: Version: 3, Type 2, Revision 7
"bcm43xx": Detected Radio:  ID: 8205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 8)
"bcm43xx": Radio turned off
"bcm43xx": Radio turned off

/lib/firmware has:
  -rw------- 1 root root  3504 Jan 24 10:58 bcm43xx_initval01.fw
  -rw------- 1 root root    16 Jan 24 10:58 bcm43xx_initval02.fw
  -rw------- 1 root root  3504 Jan 24 10:58 bcm43xx_initval03.fw
  -rw------- 1 root root    16 Jan 24 10:58 bcm43xx_initval04.fw
  -rw------- 1 root root  2536 Jan 24 10:58 bcm43xx_initval05.fw
  -rw------- 1 root root   248 Jan 24 10:58 bcm43xx_initval06.fw
  -rw------- 1 root root  2536 Jan 24 10:58 bcm43xx_initval07.fw
  -rw------- 1 root root  2536 Jan 24 10:58 bcm43xx_initval08.fw
  -rw------- 1 root root   248 Jan 24 10:58 bcm43xx_initval09.fw
  -rw------- 1 root root   248 Jan 24 10:58 bcm43xx_initval10.fw
  -rw------- 1 root root 16216 Jan 24 10:58 bcm43xx_microcode2.fw
  -rw------- 1 root root 19968 Jan 24 10:58 bcm43xx_microcode4.fw
  -rw------- 1 root root 22528 Jan 24 10:58 bcm43xx_microcode5.fw
  -rw------- 1 root root  1312 Jan 24 10:58 bcm43xx_pcm4.fw
  -rw------- 1 root root  1312 Jan 24 10:58 bcm43xx_pcm5.fw





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