Bug 240701
| Summary: | kernel claims that firmware is too old but it is not | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Bernard Johnson <bjohnson> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | triage, wwoods |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | bzcl34nup | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2008-05-07 01:46:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Bernard Johnson
2007-05-20 18:55:39 UTC
There are two drivers for bcm43xx, and as of kernel 3149 your device has been claimed by the newer one. To use the newer driver, you need 4.x firmware or newer. You can get that firmware from one of the addresses listed in the README file for bcm43xx-fwcutter, such as: http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 (In reply to comment #0) > This is with firmware 4.0c. (In reply to comment #1) > To use the newer driver, you need 4.x firmware or newer. Is 4.0c considered < 4.x ?? I'm using the firmware that came with my laptop: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-31559-1&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&os=228&product=3223624&lang=en Will- As a followup, I was able to load and use the firmware that you pointed me to briefly, until the kernel updated to the b43legacy driver. The b43legacy driver forces me back down the to the v3 firmware that I was previously using(*). I'd like to close this and chalk it to up to "transitional disinformation". * It appears that the firmware I was previously using was possibly v3, but the download for it listed it as v4. Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again. This bug has been in NEEDINFO for more than 30 days since feedback was first requested. As a result we are closing it. If you can reproduce this bug in the future against a maintained Fedora version please feel free to reopen it against that version. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp |