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en:users:drivers:brcm80211 [2018/07/08 07:50]
Joel Brinton channel number typo
en:users:drivers:brcm80211 [2020/06/10 15:38]
Matteo Scordino
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 === Current === === Current ===
  
-For SDIO driver you need to copy the nvram for your system and place it in /​lib/​firmware/​brcm. The nvram file name depends on the chip you have. The kernel log will tell you the exact file name. For the USB driver no nvram file is needed. ​+For SDIO driver you need to copy the nvram for your system and place it in /​lib/​firmware/​brcm. The nvram file name depends on the chip you have. The kernel log will tell you the exact file name.  
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 +For the USB driver no nvram file is //​strictly// ​needed: however, the nvram parameters are still required and they are already part of the firmware blob. This is a TRX file which contains the nvram parameters as a sequence of zero-terminated plain text strings, appended at the end of the last section. 
 +For an example of how to modify/add nvram parameters for USB devices, see [[https://​www.linkedin.com/​feed/​update/​urn:​li:​activity:​6675830103454339072/​|this article]]
  
 The firmware files are located in the linux-firmware repository and can be copied as is to /​lib/​firmware/​brcm. ​ The firmware files are located in the linux-firmware repository and can be copied as is to /​lib/​firmware/​brcm. ​
en/users/drivers/brcm80211.txt · Last modified: 2024/03/20 10:46 by Peter Robinson