three question marks after upgraded from 13.2 to 42.3 maybe FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY

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on my laptop PC=Samsung RV520, RAM=4 Gb, GPU=Nvidia GeForce GT 520M, CPU=Intel i5-2410M @ 2.30GHz I upgraded from 13.2 to 42.2 and then to 42.3, I’m using nvidia drivers, (yes I jumped 42.1 but I forgot it :)) at first sight it seems to works well, but, at boot I foubd this error:

[2.872733] b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 10, Type 8 (LCN), Revision 1)

and after appear the suse boot splash screen with three blinking question marks, and after the system start fairly without any issue.
what this error is for and how can I eliminate it??
manythanks, ciao :slight_smile:

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Have you installed the broadcom-wl drivers from Packman?

Sounds like the drivers do not support your B43 chip in question or are missing the suitable firmware.

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no I haven’t, I installed it now, rebooted, but the error persist

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Please take a look at this Tumbleweed thread from June this year: <https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/525300-bcm43xx-firmware-not-loading-on-boot>
[HR][/HR]P.S.: The “splash screen with three blinking question marks” issue could be the Leap 42.2 Plymouth crash issue we’ve been chasing for about a year now.

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manythanks, I made :

su
modprobe b43
modprobe b43legacy
mkinitrd

and the error message disappeared and wifi works :slight_smile:

[HR][/HR]

…but the three question marks are still there…

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Have you, from a “root” user CLI, run “rcrpmconfigcheck”?
There’s an updated Plymouth configuration file in /etc/plymouth/ which I noticed a minute or two ago . . .
[HR][/HR]It also pays to use the “root” user CLI to check the following:


 # zypper verify --details | less
 # rpm --verify --all | less