From: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Quilro Ordonez <quiliro@riseup.net>,
quiliro@fsfla.org, 23409@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23409: unable to load free firmware
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 08:55:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160502085507.31da4d6f@openmailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shy1apax.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sun, 01 May 2016 15:19:34 +0200
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> Quilro Ordonez <quiliro@riseup.net> skribis:
>
> > I am trying to lo use Broadcom wireless device on GuixSD. It is
> > confirmed to work with free drivers and free firmware. It works
> > correctly in Trisquel too.
> >
> > dmesg gives the following messages. I have included only the relevant
> > parts:
>
> [...]
>
> > [ 20.591158] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not
> > found
> > [ 21.313688] b43-phy0 ERROR: /*(DEBLOBBED)*/
>
> “DEBLOBBED” would suggest that Linux-libre’s deblobbing script viewed it
> as an opaque binary blob and thus patched it, which may be an issue
> here, no?
Does deblobbing happen at runtime too? I thought it was only during
build time.
>
> I assume you used the firmware packages that Leo copied. Could you get
> its author to submit it? :-)
That would be me :) But I don't have the hardware to test it out on,
and qemu doesn't offer emulation of the broadcomm cards.
`~Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-02 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-30 21:06 bug#23409: unable to load free firmware Quilro Ordonez
2016-04-30 22:43 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-01 13:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-02 13:55 ` Eric Bavier [this message]
2016-05-03 8:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-03 20:10 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-03 20:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-03 21:17 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-03 21:21 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-04 9:10 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-04 18:30 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-04 21:33 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-04 23:08 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-04 23:13 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-05 8:42 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-11 19:01 ` Quilro Ordonez
[not found] ` <87oa8bzjqg.fsf@gmail.com>
2016-05-12 16:11 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-13 13:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-13 21:15 ` Quilro Ordonez
2016-05-14 16:17 ` Alex Kost
2016-11-02 22:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-11 22:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-04 0:43 ` Quiliro Ordonez
2016-11-04 0:46 ` Quiliro Ordonez
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