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AvANa-BBS / freepto-lb

Encrypted GNU/Linux OS (based on Debian Wheezy) which can be installed on USB flash drive. Freepto is designed for encrypt your communications, carry your documents in secure way and save your anonymity.
http://www.freepto.mx/
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wireless drivers (broadcom) #67

Open boyska opened 11 years ago

boyska commented 11 years ago

broadcom wireless don't work. It is not so rare, unfortunately

boyska commented 11 years ago

https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/tree/config/chroot_local-preseed/firmware

ghost commented 10 years ago

I'm working on this here: https://github.com/vinc3nt/freepto-lb/tree/broadcom

ghost commented 10 years ago

The following img file can be used to test this issue:

http://dev.freepto.mx/dev/broadcom/2014-02-09_17.19_v0.1.2-STABLE-50-ge03a72a-it_IT.UTF-8/

boyska commented 10 years ago

For testers: you should check that the wireless work flawlessly without doing anything. Just networkmanager, clickclick, ok.

Usage of qemu/virtualbox is NOT possible to test this issue; you must put the image to a pendrive and boot from there.

AreYouLoco commented 10 years ago

I got broadcom wireless on my netbook. Will try that image later.

boyska commented 10 years ago

great! let us know of any annoyance

AreYouLoco commented 10 years ago

No it doesn't work. nm-applet says that firmware is missing.

I used image: http://dev.freepto.mx/dev/broadcom/2014-02-09_17.19_v0.1.2-STABLE-50-ge03a72a-it_IT.UTF-8/2014-02-09_17.19_v0.1.2-STABLE-50-ge03a72a-it_IT.UTF-8.img Command (simply): sudo make_freepto -i %that_image_name% %my_usb_device%

I haven't changed boot parameters I've simply booted i486 (of course). Dmesg:

b43 ssb0:0: firmware: agent aborted loading b43/ucode15.fw (not found?) b43 ssb0:0: firmware: agent aborted loading b43-open/ucode15.fw (not found?) 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.

Hardware: Compaq HP Mini CQ10-130CA Wireless: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)

boyska commented 10 years ago

well, that's a pity. Anyway @AreYouLoco thanks a lot for testing!

AreYouLoco commented 10 years ago

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No problem. Fell free to prepare a new image to test:D

AreYouLoco https://github.com/AreYouLoco thanks a lot for testing!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/AvANa-BBS/freepto-lb/issues/67#issuecomment-48877593.

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ghost commented 10 years ago

the provided freepto img doesn't include all needed commits. I'm sorry about that.

Could you try with the following? http://dev.freepto.mx/dev/broadcom/2014-07-14_21.36_v0.1.2-STABLE-84-g828ee89-it_IT.UTF-8/

Many thanks

AreYouLoco commented 10 years ago

It's even worse.

Network manager doesn't show up any wireless extension like there is no wireless card. dmesg show up nothing but I can see my device in lspci.

I would try a few things but: iwconfig, ifconfig, modprobe -> commands not found. And if I didn;'t make any changes the defauld root password should be freepto but it seems incorrect don't know why.

boyska commented 10 years ago

no, freepto is the cryptsetup password. The user password (the one you use to get sudo) is live. Can you try to investigate more, now that sudo should work?

ghost commented 10 years ago

It's very strange. As stated on the Linux Wireless website, you chip (BCM4312) seems to be fully supported by the b43 driver.

Please check if the module has been loaded at boot.

Many thanks

AreYouLoco commented 10 years ago

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It's very strange. As stated on the Linux Wireless website http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices,

you chip (BCM4312) seems to be fully supported by the b43 driver.

Please check if the module has been loaded at boot.

Many thanks

So. I manually loaded b43 module (sudo modprobe b43) and after that wifi showed up in NM. Tried connection. Everything works fine. (Even Tor). I knew that b43 fully support my device and it do. But maybe more testing would be necessary. Maybe someone with another wifi card.

I think that this module should be loaded automatically. A standard freepto end-user shouldn't be bothered by module loading. And probably he/she wouldn't even know the correct module. So it must be automatic.

I don't know how kernel determines which modules to load.

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boyska commented 10 years ago

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 02:24:36PM -0700, AreYouLoco? wrote:

I think that this module should be loaded automatically. A standard freepto end-user shouldn't be bothered by module loading. And probably he/she wouldn't even know the correct module. So it must be automatic.

sure! Anyway, this seems to be a good start. Could we just try to load it always, and then just ignore if the modprobe fails, assuming that it is just not needed for the current hardware? Or an udev rule?

ghost commented 10 years ago

Could you please try the last build? Download

Now the b43 module should be loaded at boot

Cheers

AreYouLoco commented 10 years ago

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Yeah sure.

Please wait....

Could you please try the last build? Download http://dev.freepto.mx/dev/broadcom/2014-07-22_13.14_v0.1.2-STABLE-85-g07f1596-it_IT.UTF-8/

Now the b43 module should be loaded at boot

Cheers

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ghost commented 10 years ago

@AreYouLoco Have you had any luck with this testing yet? are you still available? looks like you are the only one with a broadcom nic...

ghost commented 10 years ago

How to test

Image: download image Virtualization: No. bare metal required. Other requirements: Broadcom WiFi NIC required What to do:

  1. Check if the modules b43 will be loaded at boot (#lsmod | grep b43)
  2. If so, try a wireless connection
AreYouLoco commented 9 years ago

Sorry for delay I was offline in other country. I will check tonight when I get home. Cheers. Will post resault in less than 10h.

ghost commented 9 years ago

That's great! Many thanks.

ghost commented 9 years ago

Bug from tails-dev: https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/7798

ghost commented 9 years ago

moved to v1.1 as there haven't been tests on it