Stuart,

I downloaded and installed ubuntu-mate-16.04-beta2-desktop-armhf-raspberry-pi.img from ubuntu-mate.org and compared ARMslackware-current's /lib/firmware/brcm to the ubuntu-mate's. There are four firmware files that are different; brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin brcmfmac43430-sdio.txt brcmfmac43602-pcie.ap.bin brcmfmac43602-pcie.bin. The 43430's are for the wifi according to my (suspect) research and the 43602's appear to be newer versions of the ARMslackware files. I tried putting the four into /lib/firmware/brcm and the wifi still isn't showing up in dmesg. I have a tarball of the four files ready to go.

Jim

edit: Wasn't feeling well last night so I didn't look at the link until the next morning. It looks like both the 43430 and 43602 are in the link you provided.

Hello,

I registered just to throw my comments here on using the wifi on the pi3, as it seems some people have issues with it. I downloaded the newest Raspbian image to a SD and installed it to have a look around and see what I needed to make the wifi work a few days ago myself and this is what worked for me.

First, I am running slackware-current, and rpi-update keeps my kernel up to date on the pi3.

The wifi worked just fine on Raspbian but their /lib/firmware/bcrm directory had these two files for the device which slackware does not include:

brcmfmac-43430-sdio.txt
brcmfmac-43430-sdio.bin

I copied those two files from the Raspbian image and put them onto my slackware SD and rebooted the pi3.

Upon reboot, I did a "ifconfig -a" which listed my onboard wifi as "wlan1".

I'm really unfamiliar with wifi setup on linux these days, as the last time I had used a linux machine it was a laptop using PCMCIA cards back in the 90s, but I found wicd was really simple for me to use without actually learning anything. So, I changed the wifi setting in wicd to "wlan1" put in my wifi password and presto, wifi works.

Here's a link to the files I uploaded on my server if anyone wants them: http://www.lngn.net/brcmfmac-43430-sdio.zip

The 43430 aren't in any of the git repos on the link I provided - I pulled all of them.

Is this a working firmware?
https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmwa...43430-sdio.bin
https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmwa...43430-sdio.txt

Those are the files I have. I'm thinking the kernel might be the problem and it's time to recompile it.

Jim

edit: After a complete reload, wlan0 comes up with a little help. I followed the Rpi3 instructions with the new installer and got the Pi3 to boot the 3.18.9-v7 kernel. Rpi-update brought the system to 4.4.8-v7+. I manually installed the firmware files and rebooted. It still took an 'ifconfig wlan0 up' to get wlan0 to show up.

Those would be the SARPi3 instructions... and we´ve now updated the SARPi3 installer to 4.4.9 kernel on 08 May 2016. Saves you the trouble of running rpi-config, at least.

Cheers.

Looks like it's time for some "upgradepkg --install-new ..."

Jim