Mansour wrote: > I am facing the same issue. > > dmesg | grep bcm > bcm43xx driver > bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4311, rev 0x2 > bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4 > bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x13, vendor 0x4243 > bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243 > bcm43xx: Unsupported 80211 core revision 13 > bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x817, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243 > bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x820, rev 0x5, vendor 0x4243 > bcm43xx: PHY connected > bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Analog: 4, Type 2, Revision 9 > bcm43xx: Invalid PHY Revision 9 > bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2) > bcm43xx: Radio turned off > bcm43xx: Radio turned off > bcm43xx: PHY connected > bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load > failed. > bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2) > bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 > bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load > failed. > bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2) > > I have used b43 to extract the firmware. Now I don't know what to do > next. My card works fine with Vista. > The new b43 fw-cutter works only with the binaries that are supplied by > openwrt. I tried to use bcmwl6.sys that came with the pre installed > vista, but it didn't work. I am using kernel 2.6.22.2 > > I really need an advice about how to get this to work, as it's really > frustrating.
To extract firmware for bcm43xx, you need a V3 driver and bcm43xx-fwcutter. To extract firmware for b43legacy, you need b43-fwcutter and the V3 driver from http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o. To extract firmware for b43, you need b43-fwcutter and the V4 driver from http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2. Until the reverse engineers get a chance to look at decompiled code for the rev 9 PHYs, write the specs, and the code developers can turn those specs into code, it is unlikely that your device will work. As I stated earlier on this mailing list, your device will never work with bcm43xx. If you were to get the source code from the wireless-dev git tree, and make a necessary modification, there is only a slight chance that it might work. Without one to test, there isn't much we can do. There are 6 DW1390 cards for sale on E-Bay with "Buy-it-now" prices up to $30 + shipping. One must be careful that it is a rev 1 and not a rev 2. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
