b43-fwcutter is out in version 015. It is needed to extract the firmware for Broadcoms 4331 chip (featured f.e. in Apple's MBAs & MBPs) for which support is scheduled do be included in Linux 3.2 (already available manually). A simple bump to the given revision and re-manifesting the .ebuild is enough to get it working. Thanks. Reproducible: Always
I confirm this bug. But the problem is that the b43 driver in current kernel (3.0.6) does not support firmwares >= 014 (including 015). At least it *THINKS* that it does not support such firmwares: http://www.mail-archive.com/b43-dev@lists.infradead.org/msg01876.html The latest stable linux kernel still has this macro but in HEAD this MACRO and output has been already removed. Anyway, when I tried to install the latest firmware using this manual: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 it did not work for me. I`m using Broadcom 4312 WLAN and it seems to me it does not work with firmwares 015. As a result I have problems with WPA2-Enterprise networks (via engines_pkcs11 + eToken). BTW, it is not a Gentoo specific problem - other distributions are experiencing the same problem as well: Debian: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/firmware-b43-installer Ubuntu Natty - 013: http://packages.ubuntu.com/en/natty/firmware-b43-lpphy-installer Ubuntu Precise - 014: http://packages.ubuntu.com/en/precise/firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
Since git-sources are now in portage as 3.2_rc1 and they bring the driver support mentioned before, I guess it's time to bump this bug.
Thanks for the heads up. In CVS.
