Bug 382749

Summary:	net-wireless/b43-fwcutter - revision bump to 015
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	avx <idevelop>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Joe Jezak (RETIRED) <josejx>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	enridis, mobile+disabled
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description avx 2011-09-12 22:12:53 UTC

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

Comment 1 Sergey Gridnev 2011-10-17 18:37:04 UTC

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

Comment 2 avx 2011-11-09 14:54:27 UTC

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.

Comment 3 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-12-20 14:40:51 UTC

Thanks for the heads up. In CVS.