Re: Brodcom 43 Failing of FC8

[Michael D. Berger]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:23:55 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:

>  On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:40:09 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
>  
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:25:57 -0200, Martin Marques wrote:
> > 
> >> Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED escribió:
> >>> I installed FC8 on my dual boot laptop, and ran "yum update". when
> I
> >>> try to activate Broadcom 43 my wifi, I get:
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>    SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
> >>> 
> >>>    Determining IP information for wlan0...SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file
> >>>    or directory
> >>>    SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
> >>> 
> >>> Note lspci:
> >>> ...
> >>> 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390
> >>> WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01)
> >>> ...
> >>> 
> >>> Any suggestions?
> >> 
> >> Check dmesg. There must be more info there (especially when b43 is
> >> loaded).
> > 
> > Yes, indeed, dmesg:
> > 
> > b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found or load failed.
> > b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/
> >    Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware
> >    (version 4).
> > input: b43-phy0 as /class/input/input13
> > 
> > Thanks again,
> > Mike.
>  
>  So I did what it says, and:
>  
>  [root@mbrc15 driver]# which b43-fwcutter /usr/bin/b43-fwcutter
>  [root@mbrc15 driver]# b43-fwcutter -v b43-fwcutter version 009
>  [root@mbrc15 driver]# b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ wl_apsta_mimo.o
>  Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by b43-fwcutter.
>  This file has an unknown MD5sum cb8d70972b885b1f8883b943c0261a3c.
>  [root@mbrc15 driver]#
>  root@mbrc15 driver]# pwd
>  /root/broadcom/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver
>  
>  Any ideas?
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Mike. 
Wait .. I see I used the wrong firmware version for my kernel.

Mike.