Problem with bcm43xx-80211

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Andrew Robinson wrote:

> I recently upgraded to the latest kernel on FC6, 2.6.22.1-32.fc6, and when I
> did, my wireless failed to initialize. I posted a query here, and it was
> suggested I needed to upgrade to version 4 of the bcm43xx driver. I found this
> procedure to do so:
>
> # you need to be root
> wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
> tar -xjvf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
> bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o
>
> When I run the bcm43xx-fwcutter command, I get this error:
>
> Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by bcm43xx-fwcutter.
> This file has an unknown MD5sum 9207bc565c2fc9fa1591f6c7911d3fc0.
>
> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

i've done the above a number of times, without fail.  are you sure the
tarball file itself is uncorrupted?

rday
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