bcm43xx-fwcutter issues, FC5, x86_64

[Mike Lease]

Never mind!  :)  I figured out a) I was in the wrong place for advice on 
this, and b) what I was doing wrong.  All better now!

-Mike


Mike Lease wrote:
> I've been spending several days trying to get my wireless card working 
> under FC5 x86_64 on my HP Pavilion zv6000 laptop (it works fine under 
> WinXP Pro).  It is set up as a dual-boot system, it has an Athlon 64 
> 3200 processor, a Broadcom 4318 AirForce 54g wireless card, and 1 GB of 
> RAM.  I've reinstalled FC5 twice in the course of debugging this 
> problem.  After the installations, I've done "yum -y update" and "yum -y 
> install bcm43xx-fwcutter".  However, on my most recent iteration, when I 
> try to run fwcutter on any of several firmware files I've downloaded, I get
> 
> "Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by bcm43xx-fwcutter.
> I can't find the MD5sum <hex strings> :("
> 
> ...where <hex string> changes depending on which files I'm working with. 
>   I've downloaded all sorts of files advertised as 64-bit Broadcom 
> drivers, but at this point, I get the above with any of them.  During 
> previous tries, I've tried ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant as well; I did 
> refrain from doing anything with those this time around, as someone on 
> one of the forums I found (possibly this one; I don't remember) 
> suggested that trying to get them to work might leave junk around 
> interfering with the native support.  I don't believe I had this problem 
> with fwcutter before.
> 
> I have seen suggestions to use the 32-bit version, but I'd rather not; I 
> got a 64-bit system so I could use it as such.  I do want to use WPA, 
> but since I'm not even getting fwcutter to work, that's not really 
> relevant just now.
> 
> Does anyone know what the above message means, and how I can fix it?
> 
> Thanks for any assistance,
> Mike
> 
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