Bug 3662

Summary:	B43 FW cutter should be a package that autodownload the needed firmware and do the cut automatically
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Lucien XU <sfietkonstantin>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Alex Loginov <loginov_alex>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	loginov_alex, mageia
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	b43-fwcutter	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Lucien XU 2011-12-07 18:50:07 CET

Description of problem:
Currently, B43 firmware cutter is a package that brings the firmware cutter but do nothing. That's good, but not the best.
The best should be a package that is a bit like get-skype, and downloads a version of the firmware as well as extract the firmware.

When removed, this package should also clean the cutted firmware from the system. It should make installation of broadcom drivers easier (if users don't want to use wl)

Lucien XU 2011-12-07 18:50:22 CET

Priority: Normal => Low

Manuel Hiebel 2011-12-07 19:29:51 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => lists.jjorge
Source RPM: (none) => b43-fwcutter

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:10:06 CEST

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 2 Lucien XU 2012-05-26 13:40:15 CEST

This is still valid indeed. The b43 package still needs to do a manual firmware cutting. And it might be non trivial for beginners.

Sander Lepik 2012-05-26 14:28:18 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
CC: (none) => sander.lepik

Comment 3 Alex Loginov 2013-01-04 23:21:25 CET

There are no problems in Rosa:
b43-fwcutter-016-1.1-rosa2012.1.i586.rpm
b43-firmware-install-0.1-1-rosa2012.1.noarch.rpm
dkms-broadcom-wl-5.100.82.112-1-rosa2012.1.i586.rpm
When will be fix?

Priority: Low => Normal
CC: (none) => loginov_alex

Comment 4 José Jorge 2013-01-05 21:47:11 CET

(In reply to comment #3)
> There are no problems in Rosa:
> b43-fwcutter-016-1.1-rosa2012.1.i586.rpm
> b43-firmware-install-0.1-1-rosa2012.1.noarch.rpm
> dkms-broadcom-wl-5.100.82.112-1-rosa2012.1.i586.rpm
> When will be fix?

What do you mean?  broadcom-wl is a proprietary driver that comes with its own firmware...

Comment 5 Alex Loginov 2013-01-06 00:50:17 CET

Rosa and Mandriva haves b43-firmware-install, that autodownload the needed firmware.

Comment 6 Alex Loginov 2015-02-08 19:32:24 CET

Lucien, hi,
Will you test b43-firmware-install-0.1-2.mga5.nonfree.noarch.rpm?

José Jorge 2015-10-25 12:07:40 CET

Assignee: lists.jjorge => loginov_alex

Comment 7 Alex Loginov 2015-11-01 19:42:05 CET

Fixed in b43-firmware-install pkg.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED