I'm bugging you guys because Fedora Project page says to. *grin* I run Fedora 7 on a PowerBook G4. Until about a month ago (while I was still using FC6), I had no problems using my Apple AirPort card. After installing a kernel update, it stopped working. I used bcm43xx-fwcutter and reinstalled the AppleAirPort2 driver. When I dmesg, I get the error message:
<br><br>&nbsp;ERROR: YOUR FIRMWARE IS TOO OLD. Firmware from binary drivers older than version 4.x is unsupported. You must upgrade your firmware files.<br><br>So I searched through bugzilla and found bug: 240820 which was marked as Closed/RAWHIDE.
<br><br>The fix was to d/l the wl_apsta.o driver and use bcm43xx-fwcutter on it. I did so.<br><br>Failed with following msg:<br><br>broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o<br>Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by bcm43xx-fwcutter.
<br>This file has an unknown MD5sum 9207bc565c2fc9fa1591f6c7911d3fc0.<br><br>I&#39;ve tried every other driver listed in the man pages or the README and I get either FIRMWARE TOO OLD or unknown MD5sum. <br><br>Since I&#39;d been thinking of upgrading to F7 anyway, I waited until the DVD came in and I upgraded. No luck. Same exact problems. They rolled out a new release w/o fixing the problems of the old one.
<br><br>Since PCMCIA support has not worked since FC6, this pretty much makes my laptop a brick. What use is a laptop w/o wireless? I noticed on your list that someone else asked about PCMCIA support but was never answered.
<br><br>I&#39;ve used Linux, specifically Redhat/Fedora since Redhat 4.0. I was an actual customer who bought the discs, since I didn&#39;t have the ability to d/l them, so you can image how disappointed I am at how the quality of the Linux product has degraded over time. Unless someone, somewhere knows how to fix this problem, I&#39;m going to have to blow away the Linux partition and say good-bye after 10 years. I&#39;ll have to learn how to use OS X. *sigh*
<br><br>BTW, I&#39;m NOT a guru. I&#39;ve been using Linux because it was so EASY to use. I rarely even open the terminal - until the last year anyway. So if anyone does have a fix, please keep it simple.<br><br>Many thanks.
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