Problem with bcm43xx-80211

[Andrew Robinson]

John W. Linville wrote:
> 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...

Great! Thanks! How long do you expect it to take? Days? Weeks? (I've 
been running my old kernel for a couple of weeks now, so I'm not exactly 
turning blue...)

Andrew