Bug 849339 - BCM2033 Bluetooth firmware missing
Summary: BCM2033 Bluetooth firmware missing
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 258681
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: linux-firmware
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Woodhouse
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-08-18 14:10 UTC by Frank Büttner
Modified: 2012-08-20 13:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-20 13:54:45 UTC
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Description Frank Büttner 2012-08-18 14:10:05 UTC 
Description of problem:
The firmware for the bcm2033 bluetooth device is missing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
linux-firmware-20120720-0.1.git7560108.fc17.noarch

How reproducible:
Every time.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Plug in the USB device.
  
Actual results:
The kernel will try to load the bcm203x module, but it fails, because the firmware files BCM2033-FW.bin and BCM2033-MD.hex are missing.


Expected results:
working device.


Additional info:
The firmware will be in this file:
http://bluez.sf.net/download/bluez-firmware-1.2.tar.gz

Kernel message:
Aug 18 16:06:56 bart kernel: [24660.991726] bcm203x: probe of 2-1.8.3:1.0 failed with error -5
Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2012-08-20 13:54:45 UTC 
The linux-firmware package only ships firmware contained in the upstream linux-firmware git repository (or firmware heading there very soon).  That firmware isn't included upstream.

There was a review for the bluez-firmware package originally and it was found the licensing of the firmware is not compatible with Fedora's firmware rules.  Unfortunately, we cannot provide that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 258681 ***
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