Problem with bcm43xx-80211

John W. Linville linville at redhat.com
Wed Aug 22 17:36:25 UTC 2007


On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:17:55PM -0400, awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com wrote:
> 
> ---- Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote: 
> > Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> > 
> > >> bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o
> > >> Sorry, the input file is either wrong or not supported by bcm43xx-fwcutter.
> > 
> > > i've done the above a number of times, without fail.  are you sure the
> > > tarball file itself is uncorrupted?
> > 
> > Since it's the opinion of your bcm43xx-fwcutter that the file is bad, I
> > wonder if it is to do with which version of that you are running?
> > 
> I tried a 'yum upgrade bcm43xx-fwcutter' but got a "nothing to do" response. Anyone know if there is a particular version tied to the 4 version of bcm43xx? 

You need bcm43xx-fwcutter-006, which is not currently in FC6.  You can
probably use the bcm43xx-fwcutter-006-1.fc7 package, YMMV.

I've asked the bcm43xx-fwcutter package owner to upgrade the package
in FC6...

John
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