Re: ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
Sven Joachim
> I have 2 linux partitions on this acer aspire laptop. one has lenny and
> the other has sid. The lenny one detects the wireless card fine. The sid
> one doesn't.
>
> When I run: 'ifconfig wlan0 up' on sid I get:
>
>
> [ 4424.513283] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
> [ 4424.515984] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
> [ 4424.518740] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and
> download the correct firmware
> for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this
> website.
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>
>
> But I have b43-fwcutter installed on both partitions:
>
> ii b43-fwcutter 1:013-2 Utility
> for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
>
> I don't remember doing anything else than installing b43-fwcutter on
> lenny but sure enough /lib/firmware on lenny has /b43 and /b43legacy and
> on sid it doesn't so the firmware is missing.
AFAIK b43-fwcutter in sid does not try to download and extract the
firmware anymore. You need one of the firmware-b43*installer packages
(which one depends on your hardware/driver) for that.
Sven
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Angus Hedger
Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw5...@care2.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 2 linux partitions on this acer aspire laptop. one has lenny
> and the other has sid. The lenny one detects the wireless card fine.
> The sid one doesn't.
>
> When I run: 'ifconfig wlan0 up' on sid I get:
>
>
> [ 4424.513283] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
> [ 4424.515984] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not
> found [ 4424.518740] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and
> download the correct firmware
> for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on
> this website.
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>
>
> But I have b43-fwcutter installed on both partitions:
>
> ii b43-fwcutter 1:013-2 Utility
> for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
>
> I don't remember doing anything else than installing b43-fwcutter on
> lenny but sure enough /lib/firmware on lenny has /b43 and /b43legacy
> and on sid it doesn't so the firmware is missing.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Hugo
Try installing the firmware-linux-nonfree package.
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Hugo Vanwoerkom
> On 2010-09-24 18:38 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
>> I have 2 linux partitions on this acer aspire laptop. one has lenny and
>> the other has sid. The lenny one detects the wireless card fine. The sid
>> one doesn't.
>>
>> When I run: 'ifconfig wlan0 up' on sid I get:
>>
>>
>> [ 4424.513283] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
>> [ 4424.515984] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
>> [ 4424.518740] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and
>> download the correct firmware
>> for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this
>> website.
>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> But I have b43-fwcutter installed on both partitions:
>>
>> ii b43-fwcutter 1:013-2 Utility
>> for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
>>
>> I don't remember doing anything else than installing b43-fwcutter on
>> lenny but sure enough /lib/firmware on lenny has /b43 and /b43legacy and
>> on sid it doesn't so the firmware is missing.
>
> AFAIK b43-fwcutter in sid does not try to download and extract the
> firmware anymore. You need one of the firmware-b43*installer packages
> (which one depends on your hardware/driver) for that.
>
Thanks, Sven, installing *firmware-b43-installer* does the trick,
because the wireless light on the laptop lights and 'wlist wlan0 scan'
produces results. But why would wicd-gtk still show 'no wireless
networks found'?
Hugo
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Hugo Vanwoerkom
> On 2010-09-24 18:38 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
>> I have 2 linux partitions on this acer aspire laptop. one has lenny and
>> the other has sid. The lenny one detects the wireless card fine. The sid
>> one doesn't.
>>
>> When I run: 'ifconfig wlan0 up' on sid I get:
>>
>>
>> [ 4424.513283] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
>> [ 4424.515984] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
>> [ 4424.518740] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and
>> download the correct firmware
>> for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this
>> website.
>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> But I have b43-fwcutter installed on both partitions:
>>
>> ii b43-fwcutter 1:013-2 Utility
>> for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
>>
>> I don't remember doing anything else than installing b43-fwcutter on
>> lenny but sure enough /lib/firmware on lenny has /b43 and /b43legacy and
>> on sid it doesn't so the firmware is missing.
>
> AFAIK b43-fwcutter in sid does not try to download and extract the
> firmware anymore. You need one of the firmware-b43*installer packages
> (which one depends on your hardware/driver) for that.
>
Thanks, Sven, installing *firmware-b43-installer* does the trick,
because the wireless light on the laptop lights and 'wlist wlan0 scan'
produces results. But why would wicd-gtk still show 'no wireless
networks found'?
Hugo
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Sven Joachim
> Thanks, Sven, installing *firmware-b43-installer* does the trick,
> because the wireless light on the laptop lights and 'wlist wlan0 scan'
> produces results. But why would wicd-gtk still show 'no wireless
> networks found'?
Don't know, it worked for me when I last tried. Are you a member of the
netdev group? Note that wicd has severe problems with hidden SSIDš.
Sven
š http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565483
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Hugo Vanwoerkom
> On 2010-09-24 19:39 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Sven, installing *firmware-b43-installer* does the trick,
>> because the wireless light on the laptop lights and 'wlist wlan0 scan'
>> produces results. But why would wicd-gtk still show 'no wireless
>> networks found'?
>
> Don't know, it worked for me when I last tried. Are you a member of the
>
> Sven
>
>
> น http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565483
>
>
But wicd works on this laptop in the lenny partition, just not in the
sid partition. What I don't get is that 'iwlist wlan0 scan' lists the
wireless stations found and wicd which uses iwlist can't find them.
I am a member of netdev.
Hugo
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Hugo Vanwoerkom
> Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2010-09-24 19:39 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Sven, installing *firmware-b43-installer* does the trick,
>>> because the wireless light on the laptop lights and 'wlist wlan0 scan'
>>> produces results. But why would wicd-gtk still show 'no wireless
>>> networks found'?
>>
>> Don't know, it worked for me when I last tried. Are you a member of the
>> netdev group? Note that wicd has severe problems with hidden SSIDน.
>>
>> Sven
>>
>>
>> น http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565483
>>
>>
>
> But wicd works on this laptop in the lenny partition, just not in the
> sid partition. What I don't get is that 'iwlist wlan0 scan' lists the
> wireless stations found and wicd which uses iwlist can't find them.
> I am a member of netdev.
>
I found it: in wicd-gtk the preferences for wireless have to be set to
'wlan0' interface. Then he (she?) finds everything. Thanks again.
Hugo
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