Bug 470127

Summary: yast network does not run install_bcm43xx_firmware before configuring b43 wireless
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Olaf Hering <ohering>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Michal Zugec <mzugec>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: nickhester
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PowerPC   
OS: Linux   
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Found By: Development Services Priority:
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Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 510754    
Attachments: bug470127.tar.bz2

Description Olaf Hering 2009-01-28 10:40:53 UTC 
11.1 on powerbook g4

there is some airport card in the powerbook, which is operated by the b43 driver.
This driver works only if the firmware is present.
The package b43-fwcutter is automatically installed (via the modalias), the script /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware exists, and works.

but when yast configures the card it does not call the download script first. As a result, there is no firmware for the card.

Maybe there could be a check like

if ( driver == b43 | driver == b43legacy) && test ! -d /lib/firmware/b43 then
   /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware
fi
configure_wlan(b43)
Comment 1 Olaf Hering 2009-01-28 10:48:45 UTC 
Created attachment 268211 [details]
bug470127.tar.bz2
Comment 2 Thomas Göttlicher 2009-01-28 11:15:01 UTC 
Reassigning to yast2-network maintainer.
Comment 3 Michal Zugec 2009-06-25 08:38:03 UTC 
*** Bug 510754 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Michal Zugec 2009-11-11 17:20:13 UTC 
duplicate

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 412248 ***