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From: Quiliro Ordonez <quiliro@riseup.net>
Subject: bug#23409: unable to load free firmware
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 19:46:13 -0500
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I wonder why this email is arriving today.

El 2016-05-01 08:19, ludo@gnu.org escribió:
> 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?
> 
> I assume you used the firmware packages that Leo copied.  Could you get
> its author to submit it?  :-)
> 
> What’s your GuixSD OS config like?  You must make sure to list the
> firmware packages in the ‘firmware’ field, as noted at:
> 
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/operating_002dsystem-Reference.html#index-firmware
> 
> Is this part OK?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.