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Rich:
Hi coreplayer2
To check for firmware requests, one could use something like:
--- Code: ---dmesg | grep -B 2 -A 5 -i firmware
--- End code ---
This will print out every line containing the word firmware plus the two lines leading up to and the five lines
right after it.
On the footnotes in the Wiki, might I suggest the following:
1. Change LSUSB and LSPCI to lowercase because Linux is case sensitive, and to be newbie friendly.
2. Change note 1 to Use "lsusb" from command line (no quotes)
3. Change references for note 2 to 1
4. Change note 2 to Use "lspci -nn" from command line (no quotes)
5. Change references for notes 5 and 6 to 2 (removing notes 5 and 6)
6. Change references for note 7 to 3
7. Change references for note 8 to 4
Notes 1 and 2 basically provide the same information and are redundant.
Same goes for 5 and 6. lspci -nn provides all the information that lspci does plus a little more.
coreplayer2:
Thanks, well I've found that a driver calls for firmware by name which has never included the word firmware. usually the line will read something like driver_name is opening generic_related_file_name etc etc so is not consistent.
So far in my search have had to look for lines in dmesg with the expected file name and hope it leads to cfg8011 or a firmware file which normally ends in .bin, but not all drivers have firmware as such these days?
Thanks for the case sensitive suggestion, I hear you about the redundancy but without it the column header will not give any clue how to get that info so I included it anyhow..
8)
Rich:
Hi coreplayer2
I'm afraid the only sample of a dmesg firmware request I had was for a sound card, and the message included the
phrase "firmware: requesting". This was under TC3.4 and the filename rquested ended in ".fw". Maybe the following
would be better:
--- Code: ---dmesg | grep -B 2 -A 5 -i '.bin'
dmesg | grep -B 2 -A 5 -i '.fw'
--- End code ---
Juanito:
Wireless NIC Chip = Broadcom Corporation BCM4312
USB ID =
PCI ID = 14e4:4315
OEM & Model as tested = Dell Latitude D430, Dell wireless mini-PCI 1395
HW rev = rev 01
Interface = PCI
WLAN standard [802.11] = 802.11b/g
Frequency Band = 2.4GHz
Security (1) = WPA2
Tested with kernel = 3.0.21-tinycore
Tested with Wifi.tcz = N
Required Extensions (2) = wpa_supplicant, user supplied firmware
Notes
Requires Broadcom firmware, see http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Device_firmware_installation
b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15)
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNL, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 508.1084 (2009-01-14 01:32:01)
Will also work with wl-modules-3.0.21-tinycore or ndiswrapper-modules-3.0.21-tinycore (with bcmwl5.{inf,sys}) using boot codes blacklist=bcma blacklist=b43 blacklist=ssb
Edit: I confirm this will work with wifi.tcz as long as the user supplied firmware is loaded first
coreplayer2:
Thanks you Juanito, am all over this.. :)
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