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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: bug#23409: unable to load free firmware
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2016 23:19:48 +0100
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Cc: Quilro Ordonez <quiliro@riseup.net>, quiliro@fsfla.org, 23409@debbugs.gnu.org

Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org> skribis:

> On Sun, 01 May 2016 15:19:34 +0200
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) wrote:
>
>> Quilro Ordonez <quiliro@riseup.net> skribis:
>>=20
>> > 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=20
>>=20
>> [...]
>>=20
>> > [   20.591158] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not
>> > found
>> > [   21.313688] b43-phy0 ERROR: /*(DEBLOBBED)*/=20=20
>>=20
>> =E2=80=9CDEBLOBBED=E2=80=9D would suggest that Linux-libre=E2=80=99s deb=
lobbing 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.
>
>>=20
>> 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, do you know if the firmware package you wrote got more testing?
It=E2=80=99s been mentioned several times on IRC over time.

TIA.  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.