b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found or load failed.

[dimka]

my Broadcom BCM4312 wireless adapter is not working and `dmesg' recurrently gives the following error message:

[ 94.309993] input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input497
[ 94.313867] evdev: no more free evdev devices
[ 94.313876] input: failed to attach handler evdev to device input497, error: -23
[ 94.331516] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found or load failed.
[ 94.331523] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware (version 4).

[Arnaud (a.r.n.a.u.d)]

Mine is a BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (as reported by lspci), and Hardy (first beta) starts with this error message :
"b43-phY0 ERROR: firmare file b43/ucode13.fw not found or load failed".
Linux is started, but gdm doesn't.

[thetechguyz (thetechguyz)]

Linux zach-notebook 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Ubuntu 2.6.24-16.30-generic

[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.24-16-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu 2.6.24-16.30-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000d2000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017ef0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000017ef0000 - 0000000017eff000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000017eff000 - 0000000017f00000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000017f00000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 382MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000f8130
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 98032) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 98032
[ 0.000000] HighMem 98032 -> 98032
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 98032
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 98032
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 733 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 93203 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMI present.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00F8080 checksum 0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000F8080, 0014 (r0 HP )
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 17EF8BCF, 0034 (r1 HP 3097 20040830 LTP 0)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 17EFEE2A, 0074 (r1 HP 3097 20040830 PTL 5F)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 17EF8C03, 6227 (r1 HP 3091 20040830 MSFT 100000E)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 17EFFFC0, 0040
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 17EFEE9E, 00D6 (r1 PTLTD POWERNOW 20040830 LTP 1)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: APIC 17EFEF74, 0050 (r1 PTLTD 3097 20040830 LTP 0)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: MCFG 17EFEFC4, 003C (r1 PTLTD MCFG 20040830 LTP 0)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DMI detected: Hewlett-Packard
[ 0.000000] ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[ 0.000000] Processor #0 15:12 APIC version 16
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: ap...

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, this bug seems to be a duplicate of bug 197819, where jockey (originally known as restricted-manager) did not ask you about downloading the b43 firmware, and is being marked as such. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.