Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller

Hi all,
hi John,

thanks to the new package b43-fwcutter the wlan works as expected. Many thanks to John
Glaubitz!

Now I can report, that the iMac G5 works with Debian Trixie/Sid:

Hardware from hwinfo:
cpu:                       PPC970FX, altivec supported, 2100 MHz
monitor:               Apple Color LCD
graphics card:     Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV380 [Radeon X550/X600]
sound:                  Apple Multimedia audio controller
storage:                Broadcom K2 SATA
network:
  enP1p3s15f0   Apple Shasta (Sun GEM)
  wlan0               Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
disk:
  /dev/sda             WDC WD2500JS-40M
cdrom:
  /dev/sr0             MATSHITA DVD-R   UJ-846
usb controller:
                       NEC USB Controller
                       NEC USB Controller
                       NEC uPD72010x USB 2.0 Controller
bridge:
                       Apple U4 HT Bridge
                       Apple Shasta PCI Bridge
                       Apple Shasta PCI Bridge
                       Apple CPC945 PCIe Bridge
                       Apple Shasta PCI Bridge
memory:
                       Main Memory 1GB + 384 MB
firewire controller:
                       Apple Shasta Firewire
unknown:
                       DMA controller
                       PS/2 Controller
                       Apple Shasta IDE
                       Apple Shasta Mac I/O
                       PROM
                       Apple Built-in iSight (no firmware loaded)
  /dev/input/event2    Apple Bluetooth HCI MacBookPro (HID mode)
                       Apple Built-in IR Receiver

I took Xfce for window manager. LibreOffice works fine, Firefox gives a segmentation fault
on start. As browser I use links2, not very comfortable.

Because I use the iMac only as an thin client I am satisfied with this.

@John: If I can help looking for the reason why firefox gives a segmentation fault, tell me
what I should do. Compiling software is not a problem to me.

Best regards

Claudia


Am Donnerstag, 26. September 2024, 16:20:06 CEST schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 15:53 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> > > I will build the package manually and upload it to "unreleased" for both
> > > powerpc and ppc64. It will be available by tonight.
> >
> > Even better!
>
> ;-)
>
> > > You will need to add "unreleased" to your sources.list to use it:
> > > 	deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unreleased main
> >
> > Many thanks for your extremely fast and knowledgeable support,
>
> You're very welcome. I'm always very glad to get such positive feedback! Tt
> really means a lot to me since not everyone understands that even keeping
> the powerpc and ppc64 ports in the current state they are is anything but
> easy.
>
> I understand well the frustrations with the problems people run into, but
> unfortunately not all of them are straight-forward to solve. One of the
> biggest problems is that the Debian Ports infrastructure doesn't allow
> polished releases like for the standard Debian infrastructure due to the
> lack of stable releases and the lack of the "contrib" and "non-free"
> sections.
>
> But I'm trying my best and I really welcome anyone who is willing to help!
>
> Adrian
>
> --
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