Re: RPI Wifi

[Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 12:55:11PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 03:38:11PM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> > I have filled in missing pieces for the Wifi chips in the various RPI
> > models, mostly from the OpenBSD driver and a few other sources and
> > so far tested on a RPI3b+.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> I soldered a pin header onto my raspberry pi zero w this morning, so I now
> have a serial console...
> 
> > bwfm0 at sdmmc1 function 1
> > bwfm0: wl0: Mar  1 2015 07:29:38 version 7.45.18 (r538002) FWID 01-6a2c8ad4
> > bwfm0: address b8:27:eb:b7:6e:cc
> > bwfm0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> > bwfm0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> > bwfm0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> 
> Guessing that the pi zero w has yet another model?

It works on the Raspberry Pi Zero-W, you just need the firmware files
at the right location.  Grab for example this file:

  http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-brcm80211_20161130-3+rpt1_all.deb

unpack it with

  ar -p firmware-brcm80211_20161130-3+rpt1_all.deb data.tar.xz | tar xf - \*43430\*

copy the two files brcmfmac43430-sdio.{txt,bin} to /libdata/firmware/if_bwfm/ and
reboot.

The firmware files can probably also be found on github, that .deb up
there is just where I got them from a while ago.


  Harold