Hi Erich;
I've just added a new package with linux-firmware from kernel.org to add
support firmware support for the r8169 driver
lshw shows:
driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw
Am Montag, 29. Dezember 2014, 16:41:30 schrieb Erich Titl:
> Hi folks
>
> I am playing with the b43 driver and it appears there is firmware needed
> to usre this card. This firmware is not included in the firmware.tgz
> tarball.
>
> I built b43-fwcutter and extracted the firmware from broadcom's binary
> distribution.
>
> root@leafbuilder:/home/mega/leaf/firmware/broadcom/fwdir# find b43
> b43
> b43/ucode16_sslpn.fw
> b43/sslpn2bsinitvals19.fw
> b43/lp0initvals13.fw
> b43/ucode15.fw
> .....
>
> Now a few questions pop up
>
> 1) where is the firmware loaded at boot
if it's placed in /lib/firmware it will be loaded during boot by mdev
/lib/firmware is saved to moddb.lrp
I booted, extracted rtl_nic from firmware.tgz and copied it to /lib/firmware,
did a backup for modules and rebootedand got firmware support.
> I could not find any code in linuxrc to load firmware. Would it make
> sense to package it into a .lrp file?
> 2) What is the correct path to include this firmware in the firmware tarball
BT_STAGING_DIR/lib/firmware
See my latest commit to master branch.
> The local path is b43, so I assume it could be either broadcom or
> broadcom/b43
Looking into the source (linux-3.14/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c) it should
be b43 (MODULE_FIRMWARE("b43/ucode11.fw");)
hth kp
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