Bug 205819

Summary:	b43 firmware URL "Not found"
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Chris Murphy (bugzilla)
Component:	network-wireless	Assignee:	drivers_network-wireless (drivers_network-wireless)
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	Larry.Finger
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	5.4.2	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description Chris Murphy 2019-12-09 19:00:35 UTC

5.4.2-300.fc31.x86_64

dmesg
[    6.743060] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode29_mimo.fw" not found
[    6.743061] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode29_mimo.fw" not found
[    6.743062] 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.


That URL results in "Not found" and appears to be malformed.


X http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware
🗸 https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/b43

Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2020-03-17 22:41:34 UTC

The kernel MAINTAINERS file also contains a bad URL that 404s.

B43 WIRELESS DRIVER
L:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
L:	b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
W:	http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
S:	Odd Fixes
F:	drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/

B43LEGACY WIRELESS DRIVER
M:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
L:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
L:	b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
W:	http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
S:	Maintained